The way to climb the league tables?
‘NO APOLOGIES’ FOR HANDS-ON FOCUS AT NATION’S ‘MOST IMPROVED’
Barnfield West Academy was named the country’s most improved academy by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust in March. In 2009, the Luton school achieved a perfect 100 per cent of pupils gaining at least five A*- C GCSEs or equivalent.
At 54 per cent, the proportion that [...]
Ofsted getting after the “satisfactory schools”?
From The Guardian on 16th June
Inspectors say almost half of schools they visited are not providing their pupils with a good education, statistics reveal today.
Some 47% of the 3,990 schools inspected between September and March 2009-10 were judged to be either inadequate or satisfactory. Ofsted inspectors rated 9% of schools in England as inadequate, compared [...]
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