Ministers are considering ditching a league table metric introduced by Michael Gove that measures school performance based on how many students go on to study at Russell Group universities.
The controversial measure was first introduced in 2012, alongside a metric showing how many pupils get into Oxford of Cambridge.
This was to give parents “even greater information” to choose the “right school or college” for their child.
But a House of Lords committee report into secondary education this week called for this to be adjusted or ditched to ensure “performance incentives” are “coherent” across key stages 4 and 5.
