SCHOOLS across the country are bracing themselves for the new GCSE league table results which will be published tomorrow.
This year’s results are expected to show a major drop in the league for many schools as the coalition government introduced new benchmarks to measure the attainment levels of secondary school pupils.
A School’s performance will be measured on how many pupils achieved A* to C grades in five specific subjects including science, history and languages.
Currently tables are based on good grades in English and Maths plus three other non-specific subjects.
The move is supposed to give traditional subjects a boost and create an ‘English Baccalaureate’ similar to the
European Baccalaureate.
The government is also publishing new ‘spend data’ to reveal the per head expenditure of each local authority-run primary and secondary school on teaching staff, energy and catering in the last year.
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