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Grammars top league tables as attainment replaces progress 8

Progress 8 cannot be calculated this year and next because SATs were cancelled for two years during the pandemic

Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables

Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won’t count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort

A-level results 2021: Private schools see bigger jump in top grades

Private schools have seen a bigger jump in the number of top grades than state schools in this year’s A-level results, according to Ofqual. Labour said the figures showed the Conservatives had “opened the door to unfairness”, noting private schools appear more likely to give prior access to questions and face parental pressure over grades. […]

Secondary school league tables to return in 2021-22

Secondary school league tables will be brought back next academic year after being suspended for two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has said. But primary schools will not see their test results published in national league tables for another year. The Department for Education has today confirmed school and college accountability arrangements […]

Retain ‘teaching technologies’ and online parents’ evenings after Covid, say NEU members

New ways of working with technology in teaching developed over the past year and online parents’ evenings should be retained as we emerge from the pandemic, members of the country’s largest education union have said. The genie is out of the bottle so there is no reason to stick by the dead wood of a […]

League tables could still include summer term attendance

The government has not ruled out using attendance data for the summer term in school league tables, despite backing off on “nonsensical” plans to include the autumn and spring terms. The Department for Education confirmed last week that it no longer intended to include attendance data collected between last September and this Easter. But when […]

DfE tight-lipped over attendance league tables proposal

Ministers have been urged to clarify whether an “absurd” plan to base league tables on school attendance this year is going ahead despite classrooms being closed again. In December, the Department for Education announced that exams results would not be included in league tables. Instead, performance tables would include information for parents such as subjects […]

Attendance league tables will be ‘relief map of pandemic’

Ranking schools in league tables based on their attendance will just become a “relief map of the pandemic”, one head has warned. The government announced this week that exam results will not be included in league tables this year. It won’t be a league table, it’ll be a relief map of the pandemic Instead, the […]

League tables scrapped and primary tests scaled back – but year 6 SATs will go ahead

League tables will be scrapped for another year and primary assessment scaled back as part of a raft of measures designed to take account of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The Department for Education has announced today that test and exam results will not be included in performance tables for the 2020-21 […]