Blog feedGCSE success masks fall in pupils picking harder subjects
11th January
The Guardian reports that headteachers yesterday blamed school league tables for a dramatic decline in the number of children taking languages. As the government published the latest tables for GCSE and A-levels in England, John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said they created perverse incentives for schools to skew the curriculum for 14- and 15-year-olds towards easier subjects.
Read more on the Education Guardian website.
Categories: Ages and stages, Take-up of languages
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Comment from Paul Heming
Time: February 8, 2008, 7:11 pm
It does appear that the system revolves around results now.
paul - www.revisionworld.co.uk
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