Home News IN BRIEF: Traditional GCSEs Shunned at Most Improved Schools
Posted on: Friday, 13 January 2006, 09:00 CST
Many of the country's most improved schools have achieved their success by shunning traditional GCSE subjects such as science, languages and history, according to research published today. The study shows that pupils in the schools opted for vocational qualifications instead, which are considered to be worth the equivalent of four GCSE passes
. The study, published in The Times Educational Supplement, shows that not a single pupil took GCSE science at Sir John Cass school in Tower Hamlets, east London - one of two schools to top the table of the most improved. In the other, North in Kent, no pupil obtained a C grade or above in GCSE double science.Source: Independent, The; London (UK)
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