Proposal to let children leave school at 14

Title

Proposal to let children leave school at 14

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

19 Jul 1995

Year of production

1995

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:04:10

Description

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 versus academic education. Includes Ron Dearing, chairman and John Hillier and Dr Nick tate of of the schools curriculum and assessment authority on Dearing’s report; NUT spokesman John Bangs.

Contributors

Ron Dearing; Brian Ging; Gillian Shephard; John Hillier; Nick Tate; John Bangs

Keywords

Reports; Education; Employment; Educational policy; Schools; Academic achievement; A level examinations

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.