Headteachers have issued a “serious health warning” after the Department for Education (DfE) published its first league table of student “destination data”.
The information, which the DfE itself said is “experimental statistics” shows what proportion of students in every state-funded school, college and local authority in England have gone on to further or higher education or employment/training after key stages 4 and 5.
It is designed to help parents when choosing a school or college for their children, but headteachers said that the data was so incomplete that it was “dangerous”.
The information relates to maintained schools, further education and 6th-form colleges and covers both key stage 4 and 5 students.
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