Updating statistics from the book, I have found that it remains the case that nearly one in four children in their final year of compulsory schooling fails to get a single GCSE at a grade A to C. The latest exact figure is 23.2%. It is terrible reflection of the poor quality of state education. Indeed, if you took out the results of private schools, the figure would be certainly be higher.
(The figures, from the 2005 'Education and Training Statistics' publication on the Department for Education and Skills website, are for 2003/04.)
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Education
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It would be helpful if you group together such statistics and their links on a single page, or at least tag the posts that relate to a single subject like "education". For example in your book you describe literacy in the 1890s as being well into the 90%s. This contrasts well with today's performance even though the measures are obviously different.
Posted by: JohnM at November 28, 2005 09:21 PM
The postings are indeed grouped by subject. See the column on the left. Also there is a search facility further down on the left column.
Posted by: James Bartholomew at November 29, 2005 01:51 PM
Yes and no.
The scam GNVQ IT course has been replaeed by a scam non GNVQ IT course called "DiDA"
In typical NuLabor style it is all about presentation. Pretty drawings, documents and websites. Nothing that actually *does* anything.
Posted by: Paul at November 29, 2005 06:23 PM
When I made my comment above I was thinking of how useful such statistics might be when a suitable debate came up such as at Tim Worstall
link here.
Now I know from reading your book that attendance at school on the eve of compulsion was pretty high, over 90%, and that literacy levels were good too. That data would contradict some of the comments but not if it's not backed up by relevant quotes. However, I'm working abroad, and by the time I get back to the UK and the book the moment to make a meaningful contribution will have passed. I did do a search but it did not return the required stats.
Posted by: JohnM at December 14, 2005 03:07 PM
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I quite agree. I suppose the 5+ GCSE figures are still making use of the wonderful 1 GNVQ = 4 GCSEs loophole?
Posted by: Rory at November 28, 2005 08:57 PM