A new government target that 30% of school pupils must obtain five good GCSEs including Maths and English by 2012 upsets the NUT.
What the NUT seems unable to accept is that these baseline targets have been very effective in raising standards particularly for those pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Instead the NUT cites that a quarter of the threatened schools where judged good by Ofsted inspectors and 16 outstanding. At the end of the day, employers are going to be looking at results and not a schools CVA score, which is factored to consider,
Pupil prior attainment
Gender
Special Educational Needs
First language (for given prior attainment)
Measures of pupil mobility
Age
An “In care” indicator
Ethnicity
Free School Meals (for given Ethnicity)
Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI)
Average and range of prior attainment within the school (KS2-3, KS2-4 and KS3-4 only)
Yes, these are important considerations, however schools surely must turn their CVA scores into results if they cannot then surely, they are failing their pupils.