The issue has been raised in a series of recent blogs by Education Datalab, a group of expert researchers who carry out quantitative educational analysis.
The first (entitled Who’s left: Three questions for the Department for Education from our work) asks the Department for Education (DfE) if it is satisfied that enough is being done to prevent the gaming of league tables.
It states: “We believe that losing pupils is one of the ways in which secondary league tables are still susceptible to gaming. Our research has found considerable variation in the number of pupils who leave secondary school rolls – with very large impacts on league table results in some cases.
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