on January 30, 2016
BBC News Education – Girls at single-sex state schools in England get better GCSE results than those in mixed schools, according to an analysis of the most recent exams. The Guardian – Girls at single-sex schools outdo those in co-education. SchoolDash – Single-sex schools: cui bono?
Posted in National Data, Secondary |
on January 25, 2016
The Guardian – More than 10,000 pupils left England’s mainstream state secondary schools in the run-up to their GCSE courses, according to an analysis of official data by the Guardian. The figures come amid concerns league-table pressures are incentivising institutions to move students who are unlikely to do well off their books.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on January 20, 2016
GOV.UK – updated 20 January 2016.
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on January 8, 2016
BBC News Education – This year’s key GCSE and A-Level examinations have been timetabled to take into account the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, exam boards have said.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on December 18, 2015
GOV.UK – Technical and vocational qualifications for teaching from September 2016 and reporting in 2018 performance tables.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data, Secondary |
on December 11, 2015
GOV.UK – A consultation by Ofqual on 3 separate but closely linked sets of proposals for GCSE, AS and A level exams. GOV.UK – Alternative marking review processes for exams.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Secondary |
on December 11, 2015
BBC News Education – More than 90,000 GCSE and A-level results were changed after challenges to grades awarded this summer, the highest on record and an increase of 17% compared with last year. The Telegraph – Record number of exam grades changed, figures show.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Secondary |
on December 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Guide for schools, colleges and local authorities on new measures for the 2016 performance tables.
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 30, 2015 | updated December 6, 2015
GOV.UK – Ofqual is introducing a national reference test (NRT), which will provide additional information to support the grades awarded at GCSE. Ofqual will trial the test in March 2016, and the first NRT will take place in March 2017. We’d like your views on proposed secondary legislation that requires selected schools to take part in the NRT. This […]
Posted in Examinations Reform, Secondary |
on November 30, 2015
The Future Leaders Trust – This research paper explores the relationship between school performance and relative geographical isolation in England, defined as the straight-line distance to the next nearest secondary school. The research particularly looks at how this relates to the GCSE attainment of students in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM students). It establishes […]
Posted in Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
BBC News Education – This year’s GCSE results in England show few signs of a north-south divide getting any narrower. SchoolDash – This site provides Dashboards, Maps and other statistics about schools in England (with other UK nations to follow).
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 17, 2015
The Sutton Trust – This report investigates patterns of academic attainment for different subgroups of a longitudinal sample of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.
Posted in National Data, Performance Data, Secondary |
on November 3, 2015
TES News – Ministers have watered down their policy of requiring all secondary students to sit GCSEs in the core academic subjects that make up the English Baccalaureate.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on November 1, 2015
TheTelegraph – More than 100,000 children who fail their primary school Sats tests every year will be forced to re-sit the assessments when they start secondary school.
Posted in Primary, Secondary, Statutory Assessment |
on October 19, 2015
TES News – It has been around since the 1950s, easing the passage to university for generations of pupils in return for very little revision. But TES can reveal that the Department for Education has decided to abolish A-level general studies.
Posted in Examinations Reform, News, Secondary |
