The Yorkshire Post featured Nicky Morgan’s speech at the Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation Summit.

Nicky Morgan will today hit out at what she claims is “soft bigotry” in schools which pushes poorer students towards “easier” subjects

The Education Secretary will say that in future everyone will take GCSEs in the core English baccalaureate subjects.

In a speech to a Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation summit in London, Mrs Morgan is to say it is not enough to “close the gap” between poorer and wealthier students.

 “Pupils that lag behind their peers should be encouraged to reach their full potential and to go further than simply ‘catching up’,” she will say.
 “If we would want our own children to study the core academic subjects, we should extend that opportunity to every child.

“The soft bigotry of low expectation has no place in today’s schooling. That is why I intend that every secondary school starter in September will study the EBacc subjects at GCSE.

Read the full article here.

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