Nick Gibb: new education plans 'not watered down' | Channel 4 News
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Channel: Channel 4 News · 2015 · News & Politics
Cathy Newman tests education minister Nick Gibb on his numeracy and literacy, after Education Secretary Nicky Morgan proposed that all schoolchildren in England would be forced to learn their times tables off by heart. He denies that the plans for more rigorous testing have been 'watered down'.
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