Headmaster’s Articles
Examination results today
Today, the A level results were made available to tens of thousands of young people who have waited patiently to see if they have achieved the necessary grades for university. At The Acorn School, there has been none of this waiting. The senior students here achieved their university places several months ago, so have known for some time where they are heading. How come?
By using the Route B entry through UCAS, our students apply using the school’s internal assessment system and wait for a university interview to be offered. I am delighted to say that, yet again, we have had no student refused entry to the course they have chosen, unlike the large number of young people who will be disappointed that their grades have not been good enough to enter their chosen course in university.
LEAGUE TABLES
In 2004 the government announced that it was to change the criteria for league tables. It was not to be the GCSE and A level successes, but the percentage of young people who pass on, after leaving their school, to university.
When I read this I was aware that our school is at the very bottom of the current league tables – we don’t do state examinations! However, in the new system we would be at the very top, as 100% of our students gain university places. Thank you to the wonderful British government’s educational Tsars!