Headteacher conference to launch the Buckinghamshire Year of Teaching and Learning. Key Stage and GCSE attainment targets for the year 2001-02 will have been met. Additional support will have been targeted at those schools identified as having the greatest need both through delegated funding and central resources. The means of providing for the forecasted 3,000 additional secondary school places by 2005 will be supported by an agreed strategy. Around 600 additional places will be made available this year.
All parents have the opportunity to take up free educational provision for their three year olds.
The progression of Buckinghamshire students into post-16 education has been assured through the development of a strategy which accommodates the role of the new Learning and Skills Council. An audit undertaken and a map of current provision completed. Collaborative links between schools and other providers established. New initiatives in place which aid the development of distance learning. Strategy to accommodate Learning and Skills Council proposals in place.