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Blair says schools have dramatically
improved
East End Life, Issue 434,
p. 5, 18-24th November, 2002
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/templates/news/detail.cfm?newsid=1103
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- Prime Minister Tony Blair singled out Tower
Hamlets schools for praise in the parliamentary debate on the
Queen's speech last week.
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- Praising our education results, he said:
"They have improved dramatically, including a seven per
cent increase in GCSEs. That is a tremendous tribute to the teachers,
pupils and parents in the schools."
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- Mr Blair was responding to Bethnal Green
and Bow MP Oona King, who spoke in the debate.
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- She told MPs that "young people of Tower
Hamlets have made the greatest educational improvement of any
young people in this country", despite facing poverty and
deprivation.
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- She said she takes "pride and pleasure"
in the improvements.
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- For the last three years primary school results
have consistently shown the greatest improvement of any education
authority in the country.
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- Latest provisional figures show this year's
GCSE results to be the most improve anywhere in the UK.
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- More students across the borough are getting
five or more of the top A to C grades. At Oaklands School in
Bethnal Green 57 per cent of students got five or more A* - C
grades - well above the national average of 51 per cent.
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- Sir John Cass and Redcoat in Stepney achieved
71 per cent (including vocational qualifications) and at Stepney
Green 49 per cent got five or more, up from 37 per cent last
year.
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- Morpeth achieved 51 and Mulberry 54 per cent
with big increases at Bethnal Green, Raine's Foundation and St
Paul's Way among others.
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- Education lead councillor Abdul Asad said:
"The enormous effort and commitment of pupils, families
and staff are driving these improvements.
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- "We are not complacent and still have
a long way to go, but we are determined to help our young people
to confront and overcome any barriers, so they can fulfill their
potential."
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