Smiles all round for GCSE students
Friday 26th August 2011, 2:58PM BST.
Le Rocquier students Jess O'Brien, Sally Crago, Grace Collas, Natasha Bizouarn
JERSEY’S GCSE students have again outperformed those in the UK, according to the Education department.
More than a thousand young Islanders got their final results yesterday at schools around the Island.
And the Education department’s head of planning and projects, Jim Westwater, says that there have been increases across the board.
He says that the percentage of A*, A and B grades had increased on last year and that the percentage of pupils getting five A* to C grades including English and maths – the UK benchmark for a solid education – was also up.
• See Friday’s JEP for full report
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Prove it – release the grades for each school
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why each individual school, why not just whole island. you cannot start to compare schools based just on their grades. you need to look at the value added scores. Meaning what grades the students were expected to achieve (through testing such as CATs/SATs and other internal tests) and what they actually got. If one school received lower grades than the others, and you did not have an explanation, just the grades, staff and students would come under unfair media and public scrutiny.
This would still allow islanders to see overall areas for improvement that are required across all schools.
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Well here’s a thing.
I’ve just read in a local SE london paper that grades ‘topped’(whatever that means) the national average in Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.
So, if you can beat the national average, you can claim to have done better than ‘the rest of Britain’.
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