Exams chief to scrap GCSE targets
- Nov. 7, 2010
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England’s exam watchdog has said that official targets on the number and grade of GCSE’s that teenagers are expected to achieve should be scrapped.
Schools are currently measured on the proportion of pupils who achieve five GCSEs at grade C or higher, including Maths and English.
Chief Executive of Ofqual, Isabel Nisbet, has said the current league tables are too “simplistic,” and that parents should be given more information.
At the Cambridge Assessment conference, she questioned the format of league tables: “the question is, is it simplistic to measure a very small number of indicators, sometimes drawing false conclusions? I think the answer is that it probably is.”
When asked what she would do if she were education secretary for a day at a conference last week, Ms Nisbet replied: “I would get rid of the targets related to the number of passes at grade C at GCSE.”
The government have claimed that they want to overhaul the league tables.
Mr Gove, however, has said that he would like to see an “English Baccalaureate”, in which pupils would study five GCSE’s including English, Maths, a science, a language and a humanity such as history, geography, art or music.
