Clause 138
2:30 pm
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister, Children, Schools and Families; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
But we are living in a world, today, in which Ofsted says that 43 per cent. of secondary schools are not good enough. While that situation persists—I expect that it will persist for some time—there needs to be a considerable degree of prescription to ensure that, through the national curriculum and our exam system, schools are providing the kind of education that parents require.