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U.K. government faces criticism over its school league tables after examination system overhaul resulted in increasing the number of schools failed in 2015.
Secondary school head-teachers across the country have called the league tables as “nonsense” while dismissing them.
In the wake of coalition government’s radical changes to the exam system, the latest figures revealed that the number of schools failing to meet government benchmarks of 40 per cent of their pupils achieve at least five A*-C GCSE grades has doubled to 330 schools, up from 154 schools in 2014.
The recent results have led to both private and state school heads questioning the relevancy and sense over the changes made to the league tables. On average 56.6 per cent of pupils in state schools secured five such grades.
Further discontent has been caused by the government’s ban on pupils being allowed to reappear several times for exams, which also made the comparison difficult between the current and previous years’ results.
However, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan still insists of tables being useful as the Government took relevant measures to raise the benchmark for schools to maximise education standards.
Ms Morgan has said: “For too long pupils were offered courses of no value to them and schools felt pressured to enter young people for exams before they were ready.
“By stripping out thousands of poor quality qualifications and removing results from tables, some schools have seen changes in their standings.”
Labour’s shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt has also indicated that the fresh discipline is “taking the country backwards and threatening standards”.
Mr Hunt has added: “Parents deserve to know exactly how their child’s school is performing, but under this Tory-led Government all they’ve got is confusion surrounding school results year on year.”
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