Baroness Hoey
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Baroness Hoey Excerpts(11 years, 10 months ago)
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Michael Gove
We absolutely do, and one of our first reforms was to ensure that they would count in league tables in order to inject additional rigour.
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall) (Lab)
Most parents want more rigour in their schools, and I think that, on reflection, many families will welcome the changes that are being suggested and consulted on. Will the Secretary of State make it clear to schools that introducing additional maths is a great way forward? It has happened in Northern Ireland and has been terrific for future science graduates.
Michael Gove
Again, the hon. Lady talks good sense on education and is absolutely right. One strength of the Northern Ireland system is its emphasis on greater rigour and stretch in mathematics, and more and more students are achieving those qualifications. We have sought to pay mathematics graduates more to encourage them to consider teaching, and to create new centres of excellence, new 16-to-18 free schools in mathematics, but there is so much more to do, and I look forward to working with her on that.