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English Baccalaureate to rank schools

11 January 2011

Commenting on the use of the English Baccalaureate as a new method of ranking schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers the largest teachers’ union, said;

“Teachers and head teachers will be dismayed that not only has the Government once again changed the goalposts for school accountability but also made it retrospective. You can't have schools judged against criteria that were not previously in place. This will significantly disadvantage some schools, as they will not have been geared up to doing, for instance, a modern language.

“Schools deserve better from the Government. This is just political manipulation of students’ educational outcomes which has nothing at all to do with the real purpose of education. The Government should start to work more closely with educators to devise a testing and accountability system which works in the interests of students and their parents.”



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