Fourteen of the top fifteen schools based on Progress 8 scores have one thing in common: they have few low-achieving pupils....
Read morePupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...
Read more‘Scrapping exams at 16 would create a better education system,’ The Times editorial says today.
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Read moreThe new Progress 8 measure helps parents choose the ‘right [secondary] school for their child’, writes the Department for Education. It’s media...
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Read moreThe launch of GCSEs back in 1984 was a ‘quiet revolution’, schools minister Nick Gibb wrote in today’s Times *. But it’s a...
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The Harris Federation entered hundreds of native English speakers into an exam designed for speakers of English as a second...
Read more‘ Outsourcing has been hit by a string of recent failures, but that does not mean that outsourcing has failed. Labour should...
Read moreDisadvantaged pupils, those eligible for the pupil premium, will be able to ‘benefit from world class education’ because the...
Read moreSecondary schools which have been less than good for ten years or more tend to be those with a higher proportion of white...
Read moreBourne End Academy, a converter academy in Buckinghamshire with Wycombe High School Academy Trust (WHSAT), was given a grant of £150k in financial...
Read more‘…studies of the impact of the academies programme show little difference between the performance of academies and local authority maintained...
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A previous article entitled 'The Attainment Gap Exposed' has been deleted. This completed update replaces it.
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Read moreMisleading Ofsted stats cited again…
Nick Gibb : ‘In 2010, just 66% of pupils were attending schools judged by Ofsted to be good or...
Read moreGibb clearly rattled by cuts evidence
Cuts in Lewisham, Warrington, Leigh, Suffolk, Devon, East Sussex, Bolton…
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Read moreI refer to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education, who...
Read morePreviously low-attaining pupils lower Progress 8 score
It was supposed to be fairer: judging school outcomes on progress...
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