Sentences with phrase «existing league tables»

Although, as sceptics of the project have pointed out, U-Multirank will use the same, flawed data sources as existing league tables, the results will at least be tailored to the user.

Existing league tables have focused almost exclusively on how many children achieve a C pass in five GCSEs including English and maths.

Not exact matches

In many ways, the same ingredients and electoral logic exist to make 2015 as compelling a contest in FST as 2010 — and there is every chance that the constituency will top the UK league table of marginal seats once again.

Conference is aware that: (i) teachers are increasingly leaving state - funded schools before they reach retirement; (ii) unrealistic targets, workload, league tables, micro-management and inspection are some of the barriers to teacher retention and (iii) governments» interventions to support and retain the existing teaching workforce have been inadequate.

«[T] here's still a danger that too many consumers — particularly in Asia — will prefer the precision (however spurious) and simplicity of [existing] league tables to the relativism of personalized rankings,» wrote Alex Usher, president of Higher Education Strategy Associates in Toronto, Canada, in a blog post yesterday.

But does that acclaim exist mainly because of the country's consistent high placement in international league tables such as the OECD's Pisa or is there more to this system's story?