Education will not budge on GCSE result comparisons
PARENTS, teachers and members of the public yesterday added to the pressure on Education to release GCSE data that would allow a more accurate comparison with UK results.
PARENTS, teachers and members of the public yesterday added to the pressure on Education to release GCSE data that would allow a more accurate comparison with UK results.
But minister Deputy Carol Steere, pictured, refused to discuss the issue, saying the board would consider the 2011 results later this year and then decide if it wished to publish any different statistics in 2012.
The department provides an overall figure based on how many pupils achieved grades A* to C in five GCSEs but, unlike the UK, it does not include maths and English within the performance benchmark.
The majority of people approached by the Guernsey Press in Town yesterday questioned why Education did not release the comparable GCSE data.
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