Budget 2016: What does it mean for… Education
EVERY child in England may have to study maths to the age of 18 under a review announced by the Chancellor.
Pupils must already keep studying maths after age 16 if they fail to get at least a grade C GCSE in the subject.
But he revealed the Government is asking statistics experts to look at how to improve maths study and pledged an extra annual £20million to raise education standards in the north of England where attainment too often falls behind.
The move which George Osborne painted as part of his mission to build a “Northern Powerhouse”.
It will help boost standards by employing proven leaders, and outstanding Bradford head Sir Nick Weller has been commissioned to devise a strategy.
Mr Osborne also confirmed extra funds to ensure every English state school is, or will become, an academy free of council control by 2020.