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An interesting reflection on academies, particularly the chain of Harris Academies, by Frazer Nelson
Here is a nice gallery of students in this green and pleasant land is getting their GCSE results.
The Association of School and College Leaders has published a statement about today 's results.
ASCL general secretary Brian Lightman commented on the growing trend of students entering school early for math and English:
It is worrying that the downward spiral of modern foreign languages ??in the number of students has continued, with French and German recording halving the last ten years. Languages ??are the key to our economic and social future, without them we run the risk of insularity and we close the employment opportunities for educated young people here.
On natural sciences and mathematics
It is welcome news that the increases we saw last week happens in students in the natural sciences and mathematics at A Level and at GCSE. These are exactly the kind of core subjects, industry and universities for students who want to see them placed in good stead for further education and employment.
On the E-Bacc
It can not be that children from the poorest backgrounds significantly less likely that the opportunity to take GCSEs in these subjects than children from better-off areas have. Only eight percent of children entitled to free school meals were for the EBacc topics in the past year by 22 percent of total registered in the comparison.
Alice Salfield, one of our video producers from our multimedia department has been filming at Sacred Heart RC in Camberwell in London.
It welcomes the increase in the numbers taking single science GCSEs, but is concerned about falling levels of foreign language GCSEs.
Dr Wendy Piatt
Ah, GCSE results. The perfect excuse for a good long hug. We 're seeing some nice pictures huggy today. This shows Megan Larner hugging a friend, as they celebrate their GCSE exam results at Brighton College.
7chippy commenter has given an insight into the EBacc results:
For those who commented on the English Bacc, journos, including the Guardian, you have misunderstood what is happening. All these children with the results today chose their subjects over two years ago when nobody knew about the EB. Next year 's group to be only slightly better than they had started their course before wing nut Gove announced the EB.
Student is liable to be excluded from EBacc topics likely to disproportionately poorer, said Anastasia de Waal.
The EBacc will not only fail to address this scenario, it could potentially exacerbate it by shifting the purpose of course entries entirely to securing the EBacc A*-Cs,' commented . A student judged to be unlikely to get a C risks both failing to add to the league tables and distracting teaching time away from the EBacc target.
Our resident finger-on-the-pulse-Community Coordinator Laura Oliver gave me this nice list of Twitter British schools here, which bursts with messages of positivity and good wishes. The perfect antidote to this very rainy weather GCSE.
@ Real Liberal in the comments thread has pointed out an interesting comment piece in the Daily Telegraph, why students earn more than GCSEs.
Amazing at Gladesmore Community School - 60% inc English and Maths! #tottenham #GCSEresults
But added that they didn't put her under undue pressure: "We don't stress her out, telling her 'you've got to do this'," he said.
My colleague is at Holyhead School in Handsworth in Birmingham.
Bayliss described the school as the "front" but is proud that the school itself was not targeted by the insurgents - a sign of his standing in the community.
He argued that the results show that this is not a "broken" community, but one in which many students want to pursue.Among those who get to school early in their results was Safina Mughal, 16, who opened up to find her shell, she had 18 sets, including 10 in A *. She plans to do A-levels in law, wants to accounting, English and Psychology and the financial and corporate law to study at the university.
"We 've had some really good results here. It shows that this is a good, strong community. The riots had nothing to do with most people in this area."
Qasim Khalid, also 16, celebrated 14 of which goes six in A *. He plans, natural sciences and mathematics at A-level and dreaming instead of studying medicine at the university.
The number of those taking physics saw the biggest rise of 16.4%, from 120,455 to 140,183. Chemistry entries went up by 16.2% from 121,988 to 141,724, while biology saw a 14.2% increase from 129,464 to 147,904. Last week's A-level results also reflected the increased popularity of science subjects.
The year group size, which has been falling since 2004, has gone down by 2.62% from last year.
.The GCSE pass rate has
at least an A grade this year
Education Editor Jeevan Vasagar be called for GCSEs, scrapped for 16-year-old. He argued that "they perpetuate the idea that 16 is the gateway \ adulthood."
The idea of ??a university degree with 16 means that you re 'start ready to work. But employers are increasingly sniffy about taking young people, the perception is that those who cease to be the hull at 16. Youth unemployment is a problem now, but it was increased in the boom years as well.
The failure of the GCSE as a compelling education is evident in successive governments 'attempts to carve a new formula out of it. Michael Gove 's English Baccalaureate list of subjects is the latest example of this trend.
He continues:
And the idea that 16 is the threshold of adulthood harmful in other ways. One factor that is teenage homelessness, parental pressure to drop out of school at the age when a child can take their own achievements to complete. It 's the worst of all worlds - an illusory measure of independence which can be \ active harmful to a child's development.
Let's get cracking. We want to be as much use as possible to you today, so we are asking all schools to fill in our super easy form telling us how your students did in their GCSEs. Simply fill in the form and your results will be plotted on a map.
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