GCSE questioner is not reassured by replies

EDUCATION'S response to written questions about GCSE data and high school standards has failed to reassure the deputy who submitted them.

Despite being asked to provide the pass rates for each individual school in 2009, 2010 and 2011 – based on five AA to C grades, including maths and English – the department reiterated its anti-league table stance to former Le Rondin head Jane Stephens.

Education currently releases an overall statistic that includes all schools, which it says enables a better comparison with the UK benchmark given the island's 11-plus system.

However, Deputy Stephens (pictured) said many UK schools operated within selective systems.

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