Sentences with phrase «exam league tables»

Teacher exchange between Wales and Finland ahead of results of global exam league tables for education.

Exam league tables are to be expanded to show more information about the spread of a schools results, showing how the most and least able pupils are performing.

«It is perfectly clear to me, as a head of schools for 20 years, that parents will pay more heed to the well - being tables than to the exam league tables.

Seldon added: «It is perfectly clear to me, as a head of schools for 20 years, that parents will pay more heed to the well - being tables than to the exam league tables.

Not exact matches

And alongside today's proposed changes to exams and league tables we're also publishing our proposals for the new National Curriculum in England.

When it comes to judging the achievements of those in education, the one - size - fits - all approach of exams and league tables is...

«The EBacc is also a further restriction on school autonomy and another attempt to manage the education system through exam reforms and league tables, rather than investing in the resources that truly make a difference.

Increasingly children and young people are expected to attend extra tutoring or exam cramming sessions in their lunch breaks, after school, on Saturdays and in the school holidays to ensure they achieve the grades required by the Government's imposed league table targets.

Speaking at a conference in June, Ofsted's head Amanda Spielman warned too many schools in England put their league table results above pupil interests, with the pressure to boost exam grades overtaking important learning values.

From this year, only a pupil's first attempt at a qualification is included for league tables, aiming to end the practice of schools repeatedly entering pupils for exams in order to could boost their ranking.

Overhaul league tables to stop schools using vocational exams to boost their GCSE - level scores

Unions also say test and exam results used for league tables are too crude a way of measuring all a school offers.

The government says this has created «perverse incentives» for schools to offer exams that boost their league table position.

All league tables do is force teachers to «teach to the exam» at the cost of providing deeper understanding of the subject and a more well - rounded education.

It seems to be held together (more or less) by Ofsted and the examination system, with huge emphasis on league tables and exam grades to the detriment of creativity and imagination.

Only the first entry is now counted, so if a pupil re-takes an exam the following year and gets a better grade this will not show in school league table results.

Another example has been the government's decision for league tables to recognise only a pupil's first entry in exams, as a way of deterring schools from entering younger pupils for exams and then retaking if they want to improve results.

Professor Wolf's review also called for the end of «perverse incentives» in school league tables - with some pupils being steered towards vocational exams which would improve school rankings.

The Times Educational Supplement (TES) says pupils are being entered for both GCSE and international GCSE (IGCSE) English exams, with only the better grade counting towards league tables.

These were always the most low - key tests - not tied to such high - profile league tables as the tests for 11 year olds and without the significance of GCSE exams.

Whether a school is now deemed effective depends mostly, if not solely, on league tables and year - on - year exam result comparisons.

An overhaul of league tables to stop schools from using vocational exams to boost their GCSE - level scores, and to rank the proportion of pupils gaining the new baccalaureate - meaning they have obtained at least a C grade in maths, English, a language, a science subject and a humanities subject

There is also speculation that more pupils in Wales, where there are no school league tables, may be entered for exams they might not perform well in, in comparison to elsewhere.

He says the growth comes not from top universities but institutions lower down the league tables, and that schools are increasingly concerned that, with an unconditional offer in the bag, students are not performing to their full potential in exams and sometimes find they struggle at university because they have missed fundamental information taught at school.