With Michael Gove's policies angering many teachers, Labour's Tristram Hunt has said the success seen in London shows there is another way.

The shadow education secretary believes the improvement provided by people in teaching jobs in London and an old Labour education policy should have been identified and rolled out across the country, but instead the coalition has abandoned a successful formula.

Writing in the Guardian, Mr Hunt explained that a decade ago, parents were moving out of inner city London in an effort to ensure their children received a school place in other areas and secured a chance at a better education. However, today, many schools in central London boroughs are some of the most improved in the country.

Mr Hunt believes much of this progress can be attributed to the London Challenge policy of school collaboration and regrets that it did not have a chance to be implemented in other areas of the UK. This week, Ofsted will release its annual report on the state of the nation's schools and the chief inspector is likely to point out there has been continued improvement. However, just last week, Pisa results displayed a national stagnation in education standards.

According to the MP, the apparent contradiction is due to huge regional disparities and highlights that the conclusions and success of the London Challenge are not being learned or replicated.

"In the past, the education secretary, Michael Gove, has quite rightly pulled up Labour-run city councils for failing to deliver on school improvement. He must now do the same for the Tory counties presiding over a policy of educational apathy that hits the poorest hardest," said Mr Hunt.

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