Headteachers are imploring the government to postpone its plans to count only students’ first grades, rather than their best grades, in school league tables.
The policy change was leaked to the national press last week, coming out of the blue for headteachers and after schools have already planned GCSE entries for later this term and next summer.
The change means that from now on, only a student’s first entry to a GCSE examination will count in school performance tables. It is designed to tackle what the government calls the “significant increase in early entry” over recent years.
This week, both the National Association of Head Teachers and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) condemned the policy.
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