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8 results found for '"Academic achievement"' in Keywords.
Labour Party report on ethnic group educational performance (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Mick Farley on the report he wrote for the Labour Party Race Relations Group which looks at the educational underperformance of black pupils. Male interviewer not identified.
Decision makers (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary
Decision Makers- is the education system failing black youth? Presented by Terry Dignan. The work of the Rampton committee that looks at the performance of ethnic children in schools, why black children are...
Young people in Nortthern Ireland (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Edgar Jardine, of the Policy, Planning and Research Unit about low crime rates and high educational achievement amongst young people in Northern Ireland despite the social problems and...
Kenneth Baker on maths and science in British schools (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Murphy interviews Education Secretary, Kenneth Baker about two reports by Duncan Graham and Professor Thompson regarding the performance of British schoolchildren in maths and science subjects compared...
Ofsted set up (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Professor Stewart Sutherland who describes his role at the head of new private inspection team Ofsted which will monitor the performance of schools, taking over from Her Majesty’s...
Proposal to let children leave school at 14 (1995)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Brian Ging reports on the row sparked off by education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard’s ideas of letting fourteen-year-olds leave school and go out into the workplace. Debate on vocational...
A level exams getting easier (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Dr Michael Halstead the Chief Executive of the University of Cambridge local examination syndicate on why the pass rate was going up and is now at 84% following a decade of improvement. A...
State of higher education (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Josh Hillman, an education specialist at the Institute of Public Policy Research on the debate over A level pass rates constantly increasing; the current state of the higher education system with number of...