Sentences with phrase «government performance tables»

This is a slightly tricky comparison to make because the government performance tables exclude categories in which there are fewer than five pupils, so about 50 of the 164 grammar schools in the country that entered fewer than five pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) for GCSEs that year are excluded from the analysis.

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«The Government needs to scrap the damaging school performance tables and focus instead on a more balanced method of assessing educational achievement based on externally marked sample tests.»

Consequently, the new Coalition government introduced the English Baccalaureate as a «performance measure» in the 2010 performance tables published in January 2011.

«The individual tuition attached to the pilot Making Good Progress tests would have been positive but the tests themselves are still fatally hitched to the Government's tests, targets and performance tables.

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

In January this year, all schools were ranked on the government's new performance measure in the key stage 4 performance tables.

Wilshaw's speech comes in the midst of a government drive to encourage pupils to study for more academic GCSE qualifications by using performance tables to punish schools that fail to enrol pupils in its English baccalaureate suite of subjects.

She also says that for school performance tables, the government will publish «standard passes» (grade four and above) but also the «strong passes» (at grade five and above).

The government must provide greater clarity for parents and students by ensuring the school and college performance tables, for too long now dominated by academic measures, place greater emphasis on technical qualifications and the destinations of students.

The performance tables show the number of schools below the government's «floor standard» has fallen by 92 since last year, with 676 failing to meet the expected levels, compared with 768 in 2014.

The assertion comes as the government publishes data - or league tables - detailing schools» performance in national curriculum tests, often known as Sats, taken by Year 6 pupils in the summer term.

The committee wants the government to change the data reported in the annual performance tables to help avoid a narrowing of the curriculum and «teaching to the test».

The main reason why none of the main political parties will risk supporting the widely held view that GCSEs (the 16 + examination) should be abolished is that they are used as the basis of performance tables which enable government to assert a degree of control over schools at a time when they are weakening the existing controls of local government over schools.

«The time of change is not over yet, as the government plans to revise the way the EBacc [English Baccalaureate] is used in future performance tables.»

Researchers found large differences in the pupil progress gap between different types of schools, and have now called on the government to consider new policies including requiring schools to publish their progress measures for disadvantaged pupils on their website, and for that measure to be included in performance league tables for multi-academy trusts.

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We are deeply concerned that Government is the now proposing to revive such tables for adoption performance.