Provisional GCSE and equivalent results 2018: A first look at the new EBacc average points score measure
Does the EBacc APS really tell us anything new?
GCSE results 2018: Taking the long view on entry rates
How have entry numbers in EBacc subjects and other subjects changed since 2012?
GCSE results 2018: The main trends in entries and grades
Our first look at this year’s data.
GCSE results 2018: Four things to look out for on Thursday
The first of two preview posts ahead of this year's GCSE results day.
How do qualification entry rates differ between schools and multi-academy trusts?
Including details of a new report for FFT Aspire users.
Provisional KS4 data 2017: Has your Progress 8 score improved?
I’m not normally inclined to say “I told you so” but, in this case, it might be justified. Back in 2015, when the Department for Education announced the scores for old style GCSEs in 2017, Dave Thomson and I did some calculations to look at 'what if' the DfE 2016 and 2017 scoring systems were applied [...]
Provisional KS4 data 2017: North East secondary schools fall further behind the rest of the country
Last year at the Schools NorthEast Annual Summit I was delighted to talk to primary teachers and learn how they had become a high-performing region. Today I had less happy conversation with their secondary colleagues about why they are falling behind at GCSE. As the chart below shows, the North East has always scored poorly [...]
Provisional KS4 data 2017: A round-up
The EBacc continues to be ignored There was a slight fall in the percentage of pupils entered for all five subjects making up the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). Even so, the percentage entered for the science and humanities components actually increased. The fall in the headline EBacc entry rate was entirely due to a drop in [...]
GCSE results day 2017: It’s all about the (lack of) money, money, money
In England, the government has been trying to push schools into raising entries in the so-called EBacc subjects through its accountability metrics: the percentage entering and achieving the EBacc, and Progress 8. This is one reason why subject entries have been changing so much in recent years. However, another reason why they are changing is [...]