Sentences with phrase «pupils over the grading»

The watchdog won a legal challenge from schools, heads and pupils over the grading of last year's English GCSE results, after exam boards were told to move grade boundaries.

Not exact matches

A prestigious Church of England school in south east London is facing legal action from parents who claim two pupils were unfairly removed over their grades.

In order to keep up in maths, over a third of pupil will need to get high grades and an average above grade 5.

Second, Florida stopped letting third - grade pupils who could barely read go on to fourth grade (a practice, common all over America, called «social promotion»).

The Department for Education (DfE) stated «those secondary schools that fail to ensure 60 per cent of pupils achieve five good GCSE grades and have a below average proportion of pupils making expected progress over three years, will be classed as coasting».

The current Year 10 students will then sit most of their GCSEs under the new system, but they might have some under the old system, for example if they are taking ancient history or ICT, while those pupils now in Year 9 will be fully «moved over» on to the numerical grading system.

Pupils from England, Wales and Northern Ireland were offered the chance to resit the papers free of charge after the row over the moving of grade boundaries.

Eivers, Shiels, Perkins, and Cosgrove (2005) also reported that approximately a quarter of pupils in these schools have between zero and 10 books in their home and that over one fifth of pupils at each grade level had been read to no more than a few times a month prior to starting school.

Education secretary Justine Greening said she expected more pupils to get a grade 5 over time as England's education system improved.

Yet figures show that GCSEs in English and maths are not set to pick up over the coming years, with one in four pupils currently gaining a C grade — a «good pass» — expected to get a 5 grade next year, which slips under the gold standard.

GCSEs have had the same «toughening - up», with the added dimension of a complete change in nomenclature (numbers over grades, e.g. 4 = C) and a switch from criterion - lead marking (a C means the pupils can do this, that and the other) to % cohort classification (63 % of pupils will get a level 4 or above).

It would open next fall with three kindergarten and two first - grade classrooms and expand gradually over five years to serve 375 pupils in grades K - 5.

By the end of fifth grade in France, the relative benefit to disadvantaged pupils who start at the amazingly early age of 2 rather than 4 is over one - half of a standard deviation, quite a large effect size.

But Mark Vickers, the MAT's chief executive, said government advisers visited Olive AP Academy in Essex after it received its grade, as well as its sister academy in Havering, and reassured the trust that it could continue with plans to take over the Kingsfield Centre, a failing pupil referral unit currently run by Suffolk County Council.

Concerns over how pupils are marked and graded in English language exams emerged in the summer of 2012 and it seems such worries continue.

In a further challenge, the education minister in Wales has called for urgent talks over the «injustice» of grades, raising the prospect that pupils in Wales could have their GCSE results raised while their English counterparts would have a lower grade for the same standard of work.

Last year, Welsh pupils closed the gap with the rest of the UK in the highest grades, but overall A * to C grades fell for the first time in over a decade.