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Independent schools 'must report achievements of five-year olds'

Posted on 3rd July 2009

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Independent schools will soon have to pass on information about the achievements of their five-year-old pupils, it has been reported.

Councils will be able to force the educational establishments to give them the data under new powers coming into effect on July 22nd, the Times Educational Supplement (TES) relayed.

Details of a child's name and the hours of teaching they receive will be removed from the documents, but test scores will be published.

Under current rules, only government-funded institutions need to be informed of youngsters' academic and social achievements.

Although private schools need to assess kids at the early foundation stage, up until now they have not needed to make the results available.

The TES said the Independent Schools Council does not agree with the plan and has asked why the 95 per cent of information already available is not sufficient for analysis.

In other news, the Princes Teaching Trust recently claimed British school learners are being taught an uninspiring curriculum. ADNFCR-921-ID-19249708-ADNFCR