A new year, and a brave new world of government league tables. This month has seen the new official Progress 8 (P8) scores that the Department of Education has created for English secondary schools.
Rather than just counting those who achieve at least five A* to C grades, as has been the measure until now, Progress 8 is designed to take into account the achievement of all children in year 11, not just those who attain those particular grades.
Sounds good. Critics of league tables, me included, have long claimed that, if we must have such tables at all, simple measures of exam results are misleading and inequitable. If we must have them, we’ve suggested time and again that they should be more useful and fairer to all types of schools by measuring the value the school has helped students to add to their attainment.
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