COMMONS

Reforming Key Stage 4 Qualifications

This session is intended to focus on the Government’s proposed reforms to Key Stage 4 qualifications and to the exam system. The Committee will explore key aspects of the proposed reforms and will raise some of the concerns the Committee has heard about the changes.

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Date Business
06 March 2013
2:00 pm
 Foundation years: Sure start
Witness(es): Angela Prodger, Deputy Head of Centre, Pen Green Centre for Children and Families, Cllr Bob Scott, Chair of Governors Pen Green Centre for Children and Families, Christine Wheelan, Head of Centre, Croyland Children's Centre & Nursery School and Ellen Wallace, Principle of the Woodnewton Academy Trust; Alex Hopkins, Director of Children, Customers and Education, Northamptonshire County Council, Diane Dinch, Locality Clinical Team Facilitator, Corby and Kettering Health Visiting Teams, Willowbrook Health Centre, Maggie McKay, Senior Coordinator, Home-Start Corby, Pen Green Centre and Nicki Price, Chief Officer, Corby Commissioning Group, Willowbrook Health Centre
Location: Pen Green Research Base, Corby
12 March 2013
9:30 am
 GCSE English exam results 2012
13 March 2013
9:30 am
 Administration of the DFE
Witness(es): Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education and Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education
13 March 2013
10:00 am
 Asbestos in schools
Witness(es): Michael Lees, Asbestos in Schools Group, Julie Winn, Chair, Joint Union Asbestos Committee, Professor Julian Peto, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Dame Joan McVittie; David Laws MP, Minister of State for Schools and David Ashton, Director of Field Operations Directorate, Health and Safety Executive
20 March 2013
9:30 am
 The role of School Governing Bodies