Sentences with phrase «league table measures»

There are also numerous suggestions about new A Bacc league table measures but no decisions have been made.»

As well as the 70 equivalents that will count towards the school's five good GCSE grades including English and maths, a further 55 will be valid for other league table measures.

It follows changes to the way league table measures count these results.

Subjects such as RE and music have already been hit as schools attempt to move pupils on to courses that will count towards the controversial new league table measure.

«In government, Liberal Democrats have shown we trust teachers by giving the profession control of our # 2.5 bn pupil premium; backing a new Royal College of Teaching; axing Labour's hated A * - C league table measure, and successfully fighting to implement independent recommendations on pay.

But he warned that the government's introduction of a new league table measure - the English Baccalaureate - risked creating the kind of distortion that was being criticised in the current rankings.

They say music is being squeezed because of pressure on pupils to take subjects included in the EBacc school league table measure.

This trend is likely to be linked to the introduction in the autumn of 2010 of a new league table measure, known as the English Baccalaureate, which now rates schools on how many pupils get good GCSEs in such subjects, as well as sciences and English and maths.

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The top of the table clash on Sunday is also a chance for Coquelin to measure himself arguably the best player at his position in the league, Nemanja Matic, and our star has clearly watched the big Serbian closely, perhaps even modelling his own style a little on his.

Generally you can measure the league success of teams by their income, and in broad terms the income league table is not too dissimilar to the current Premier League league success of teams by their income, and in broad terms the income league table is not too dissimilar to the current Premier League league table is not too dissimilar to the current Premier League League table.

As yet, no district in Ghana has been certified as Open Defecation Free, which is the main measure under the sanitation indicator of the UNICEF District League Table.

As stated by the government, it will put an end to schools aiming to maintain their league table status by simply putting their students through «non-academic» qualifications such as the intermediate GNVQ in ICT, which is measured to be the equivalent of four good GCSE passes, despite only requiring the teaching time of the maths GCSE.

School league tables should include a measure of well - being, according to university head Sir Anthony Seldon.

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools program.

«League tables are however a dreadful way of measuring success.

More attention should be given to progress and value - added measures in school league tables (in England) so that schools are encouraged to focus on all their students, it adds.

Sir Anthony Seldon, a university head, former head teacher and mental health campaigner, says school league tables should include measures of well - being.

Instead two new league - table measures will be introduced, examining the percentage of pupils who reach a set threshold in English and maths, and an average points score showing how much progress each child makes between the end of primary school and GCSE level in eight subjects.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said her union has «long argued that league tables, high - stakes testing and other accountability measures have a negative effect on children and young people».

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

This followed concerns that current accountability measures encourage schools to «play the system» to boost their league - table standing.

Schools and colleges will be measured on the results of their poorest pupils under a new «disadvantage» league table headline measure this year.

The literacy levels of England's 11 - year - olds are measured by the national tests - or Sats - and are published in the primary school league 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.

And it remains to be decided whether grade four or grade five will become the expected level in future, for measures such as school league tables and minimum standards for schools.

It says they are a «damaging trend», not in the best interests of pupils and driven by the league tables, where schools are measured on how many pupils get at least a C grade in English and maths.

As well as areas that lend themselves easily to deal reporting — M&A, finance, capital markets, project finance — league table - style surveys are prevalent in other practice areas where quantitative data can be collected, measured, and assessed.

League tables can be broadly described as those products that measure law firm deal activity through factual data rather than more subjective methodologies.