The push to improve spelling is the latest element in the government's efforts to raise abilities in the basics of literacy and numeracy.
But under this government the numbers staying on in education are down, and the number of children getting catch up tuition in the basics is falling.
We are told it will - not "might perhaps, after wide-ranging consultation", but "will" - "create space to better personalise teaching and learning, whilst ensuring an excellent grounding in the basics".
Even so, more than half of students in higher education drop out before completing their courses, hobbled by money worries, a poor grounding in the basics and hectic schedules (most courses are part-time at night).
One group was taught the basic fundamentals of music, including pitch, rhythm, melody and other concepts. (You can see an example here.) The other group was taught visual art training in the basics such as shapes, colors, lines, and other concepts.
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So there was no national expectation of success at school for young people - although nearly half of 11 year-olds were not even up to standard in the basics of literacy and numeracy and a similar proportion left school at or soon after 16 with few if any qualifications.
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In this and other areas, Li is proud of steeping himself in the technological basics and the external conditions of whatever business he's in.
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It is a simple curriculum that can be taught in an hour which gives 5th graders the basics in preparing for emergencies.
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Even if the human brain were significantly different in structure and function the basics of behavior, action, social living were all evolved and inherited from all other living things.
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In Part 1 of the Basics of Asset Allocation, I recommended four gates an asset class must pass to be included in a well-diversified portfolio.
Just as innovation matters in the tech category, it matters in the auto category and Toyota, while buckling down on the basics and every other rule of brand ascendency, is nothing, if not inventive in its thinking.
During weekly sessions, employees teach the trainees the basics of every position in the restaurant.
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And with tourism to the region set to boom when Rio de Janeiro hosts the World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016, we have gathered the need-to-know basics regarding fees and visas for South America.
Bowler, a Thailand-based Australian, has run half a dozen of the tours in recent years, during which participants are taught the basics of Islamic practice, study Islamic history and calligraphy, pray in mosques and live and eat with Muslim families.
At the same time, the strongest growth clusters in those regions that stick to the basics: relatively low taxes, pro-business regulations and continued infrastructure investment.
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Category two is the budget for sports venues and small transportation systems for cities that lack the basics in those areas.
Once sales increase, make sure the customer relationship executive learns the basics from the specialists, in order to independently generate and qualify leads.
Matias has kept the overall design the same as the Tactile Pro in both cases, though: a look similar to Apple's old Pro keyboard with no frills beyond three USB 2.0 ports, only the basics in terms of extra keys, two legs underneath to prop it up and a 6-foot-long USB cable (no wireless option here).
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As auto sales move into the true mass market in China, auto lenders have to establish the basics from scratch.
But a spokesperson said it was vital to get the basics right in primary schools and to make the curriculum relevant to older, non-academic secondary school pupils.
We must go forward in our commitment to the new basics, giving parents greater authority and making sure good teachers are rewarded for hard work and achievement through merit pay.
It sounds like an average play-day I know, but in these 24 hours were the basics of Paper Mario Sticker Stars which they had been playing on their 3DS XL between paper craft sessions.
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When he was a novice political candidate, he said, the late Louis Lefkowitz, the longest-serving attorney general in New York history, had taught him the basics of retail campaigning on the streets of the city.
Lowe, the lead parent educator at Fort Stewart in Georgia, says it's about the basics.
Most of the world's poor live in densely populated squatter settlements and lack many of the basics of human survival.
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Beginning with the basics, Napolitano in the introduction lays out neatly the explanation of natural rights.
Steve Keen has spent considerable time in recent years insisting that the usual basics of economics that everyone subscribes to is nonsense.
Batman is believed dead by most of the public, is beaten and without his usual resources (even losing his faithful British butler), and most of all he has to go back to the basics, exercising in a prison and a League of Shadows lair while learning to find and overcome his fears again (mirroring scenes in the first half of Batman Begins).
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