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Posted on 22nd December 2009

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It is unlikely that an employer is going to take a student on for an apprenticeship unless they have good exam results, it has been said.

The same situation will arise for those in search of sixth-form and college places, Ofsted chief Christine Gilbert suggested.

Writing for the Times Educational Supplement, she emphasised that school inspectors look at raw examination results for a reason.

"Inspectors do take account of value-added measures. But it would not be right to ignore the importance of overall test and exam results," she claimed.

Defending the new inspection framework, Ms Gilbert said that some schools may not have performed as well as in the past, but standards will slip in a number of cases.

A report from the Sutton Trust report recently found that independent school pupils account for fewer than 15 per cent of A level entries, but achieve twice the proportion of A grades as their state school counterparts. ADNFCR-921-ID-19526217-ADNFCR