Brighton and Hove GCSE results among UK best (From The Argus)
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Brighton and Hove GCSE results among UK best
8:10pm Monday 28th January 2013 in News
The city has united in congratulating its students after an improvement in GCSE results put it among the country’s best.
New Government statistics placed Brighton and Hove in the top 20 most improved local authorities.
Across the city’s secondary schools and academies 56.4% of students gained five or more A* – C grades including English and maths, up 3.6 percentage points on 2011.
The chair of the council’s children and young people’s committee Councillor Sue Shanks said: “I congratulate all our students and their teachers on this massive improvement in GCSE results, particularly in a year when the overall improvement nationally was so small.”
A spokesman for the Labour group said: “We need to continue to build on this success and make all our schools the very best we can by giving them the support and encouragement they deserve.”
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Comments(4)
668 The neighbour of the beast
says...
11:07pm Mon 28 Jan 13
Hove Actually wrote:Local job centre, or, West Street at 2am.
This will be a case of statistics saying what they want.
Probably Brighton Collage 97% and Whitehawk, Moulsecoomb, Falmer, slightly less with Patcham, Hove, Blatchington Mill, Cardinal Newman, Varndean coming between them
Anyone know where you can see the results by school?
Maxwell's Ghost
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7:05am Tue 29 Jan 13
welluncool
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8:50pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Brighton and Hove LEA did achieve 56%yes; but the national average is 59%.
Brighton and Hove was one of the biggest improvers - but is still below the national average, and the improvement is only so big because of the extremely low scores in previous years.
This is nonsense journalism of the worst sort - I presume you've just repeated the LEA press handout without thinking once about what you are writing.
Hove Actually says...
10:42pm Mon 28 Jan 13
Probably Brighton Collage 97% and Whitehawk, Moulsecoomb, Falmer, slightly less with Patcham, Hove, Blatchington Mill, Cardinal Newman, Varndean coming between them
Anyone know where you can see the results by school?