Year of Catholic Education 2010-2011

Since the election of the new coalition Government in May 2010 we have seen rapid changes to the education landscape. As well as the Academies Act 2010, the Government published just this week another sizeable Education Bill containing far-reaching reforms.

Let me begin by acknowledging the tremendous amount of work done on Academies by [...]

In the Catholic sector we strongly share the Government’s belief that schools ‘should offer all pupils a broad range of academic subjects to age 16’, and give a welcome to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) as one of the ways in which that aspiration may be promoted.

We also further recognise that ‘getting good passes [...]