Sentences with phrase «performance tables»

He also backed the idea that academy chains could be ranked in performance tables in the same way as local authorities.

Data that will show whether schools are performing as well as they should be for all their pupils is to be included in forthcoming school performance tables.

Approved key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2020 school and college performance tables.

It is the only global university performance table to judge world class universities across all of their core missions — teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

But many who took part in the consultation on the issue feared the new measures may lead schools to only offer qualifications that could be included in performance tables.

The guidance on similar schools explains the data and calculations we use to create a group of «similar schools» in the school performance tables.

Photo Credit: Corvette Racing / Twitter Last week, IMSA released the latest Balance of Performance tables for all classes participating in the 2017 Rolex 24...

The FIA confirmed changes to the GTE - Pro class Balance of Performance tables on Friday.

Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, expressed this concern by saying: «It's not uncommon for schools to have several grades altered after challenges to results, and this can have a dramatic effect on performance tables.

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

«A combination of chronic underfunding and school performance tables which are heavily focused on the English Baccalaureate subjects is driving the arts to the fringes of the curriculum and making them increasingly hard to sustain,» he added.

The one new proposal in Ed Balls» letter is, remarkably, to increase the malign effect of school performance tables by creating a separate table for teacher assessment results.

Plans will be put in place to encourage pupils to study more academic GCSE qualifications by using performance tables that will monitor schools who fail to enrol pupils in English baccalaureate subjects.

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.

Your investment success is priority one... the reason why we provide a complete performance table for all the stocks we publish, unlike other services that highlight a few top gainers.

Our recent GCSE performance tables showed that 90,000 more pupils took the challenging English Baccalaureate compared to 2010, an increase of 71 % in four years.»

The latest analysis of Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) performance tables follows on from the finding last week that the UK's has lost its top - five science ranking, falling from fourth to 14th in the world.

Today, the Department for Education released primary performance tables based on the results of this summer's key stage 2 tests.

'' [Lord] Bew is claiming to give more trust to teachers but his recommendations, on teacher assessment and making the annual performance tables even more burdensome, will do the opposite.»

Ofqual's report said: «The decrease in early entry across all subjects, excluding English literature, is possibly explained by the change to school performance measures announced by the Department for Education in September 2013, when the secretary of state announced that only a student's first result in a subject would count towards performance tables.»

I would have a single external examination taken at different ages and abolish performance tables.

The Department for Education will set out in early 2012 which ones will still count in performance tables from 2014.

The government feared that if they scrapped GCSE's (most other European countries do not have a 16 + examination), England would drop in the international performance tables (e.g. PISA), and that this might cost them votes.

In the US, 9 out of 11 stock market sectors are positioned to finish in positive territory — 8 of which have gained double digits, as of December 20 (see Sector performance table).

Counting only the survivors, as most performance tables do, the «average» fund returned 10.7 % compounded annually from 1962 through 1995.

«The CBI is right to call for a move away from the damaging system of crude performance tables which provide perverse incentives, narrows the curriculum and denies parents and the public access to quality information on schools» strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for development.

The researchers compared similar blocks in the catchment of schools which, without borderlining, would have scored the same quality in national performance tables.

The Department for Education (DfE) has released GCSE and A level performance tables for 2015, which show that 57.1 per cent of pupils gained five GCSEs at A * to C, including English and maths, representing a slight increase from 56.6 per cent in 2014.

This element of the sponsor agreement could relate to the DfE's MAT performance tables.

Zhao notes that students in the city of Shanghai topped the PISA performance tables in 2009 and 2012 (when compared to the tested populations of other nations).

Abstract: We test the hypothesis that the abolition of school performance tables negatively affects school effectiveness.

Launched in March 2016, the online school performance table tool allows users to search for any school in the country and view its test results, Ofsted reports and financial information.

The changes will be made in response to «feedback from schools about the impact that a small number of pupils with extremely negative progress scores can have on a school's overall Progress 8 score», according to the DfE's «School and college performance tables statement of intent» for July 2017.

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.

Education Datalab has investigated the trends in attainment from 2011 to 2014 by using a prototype of the new Attainment 8 and Progress 8 measures, which will be introduced into performance tables next year.

A quick look at the DfE's performance tables makes it clear that more children achieve more highly than they did 20 years ago, and more schools are rated «good» or «outstanding» than ever before.

Because the current PRE performance tables may be incomplete and misleading without information on the alternative pass measures, the OPPS recommends the following for your college or university's educator preparation programs:

The full performance tables will still be published in January, but a provisional version will be brought forward to the autumn term.

Those policies include plans to force schools in poor performing or unviable councils to convert into academies, new performance tables for academy trusts and a reform of alternative provision.

«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.»

Following the official test day results on June 2nd, the FIA can make additional changes to the Balance of Performance tables ahead of race.

Everyone would have been wise to simply invested in SPY or VFINX or VBINX back in 2009 and forgotten about it, as can be seen in performance table below (click image to enlarge).

The following performance table comparing four of the leading specialty coffee companies against the S&P 500 (the average company) illustrate just how extraordinary their performance has been.

As represented on various performance tables, Norwegian ranks pretty high across the board when it comes to On Time Performance (OTP).