A third of schools failing - The Detail
The Detail – Northern Ireland's investigative and news web site – reports that more than a third of Northern Ireland’s post-primary schools would be rated as “failing” under exam performance criterion set by the coalition government for schools in England.
They base their report on information gathered from the exam results of thousands of pupils in last summer’s GCSE and A-Level examinations.
Kathryn Torney reports “The findings provide stark evidence of the long tail of underachievement in many of the province’s schools – hanging uncomfortably alongside Northern Ireland’s highest achievers regularly outperforming their counterparts in other parts of the UK every year.”
The information from 213 schools was released by the Department of Education in response to a Freedom of Information request from The Detail. This is the first time that the figures for the 2010/11 academic year have entered the public domain.
Read the whole article on The Detail’s web site.
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John O’Dowd MLA
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