Two leading academics have called for school league tables to be scrapped because they are essentially a ‘meaningless exercise’.
In a paper for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, George Leckie and Harvey Goldstein of Bristol University’s Centre for Market and Public Organisation argued that only a handful of schools could be identified as better or worse than average.
Rankings based on pupils’ GCSE achievements were of limited value, they said.
In a paper for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, George Leckie and Harvey Goldstein of Bristol University’s Centre for Market and Public Organisation argued that only a handful of schools could be identified as better or worse than average.
Rankings based on pupils’ GCSE achievements were of limited value, they said.
