New performance measures to assess and compare school standards will be announced early next term, Education Minister Jeremy Miles said today. Published school performance measures, including tables of A* to C grades at GCSE, were halted during Covid and some have been abandoned all together.
Speaking as Wales posted lower GCSE grades after the first sat summer exams for three years, Mr Miles said an announcement on revised performance measures will be made early next term. This will look at more than just qualification results and will include the ethos of schools in line with the aims of the new curriculum, he said.
"We suspended performance measures during Covid and there will be an announcement on that soon. We want to see a range of ways schools are evaluated. Qualifications will continue to be an important part of that, but the ethos of the new curriculum points us to a much wider range."
