Speaking at children's services' union Aspect's annual conference last week, the government's chief adviser on school standards Sue Hackman laid out the future for school improvement policy in the wake of this year's exam-marking fiasco and what she described as "awful" Key Stage 3 results.
She said head teachers would have to change the way they work to achieve school improvement as part of the integrated services agenda. She also revealed that all schools will have their own version of the National Challenge. Schools with between 30 and 40 per cent of pupils gaining five GCSEs at grades A* to C will be asked to improve next and set targets this autumn.
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