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Wednesday, June 10, 1998 Published at 09:03 GMT 10:03 UK
Education
The findings: spending down but achievement up
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More women than men are employed as secondary school teachers
The report, Secondary Education: A Review of Secondary Schools in England 1993-97, provides an overview of all aspects of secondary education.
Its other main findings are:
- Leadership and management are good in three out of four schools, but weak in one in 10.
- The quality of teaching has improved but an area of
weakness is the failure to provide appropriately across the range of
abilities, with many schools not providing a suitable
curriculum for low achieving pupils in their final two years of compulsory education.
- Two in five pupils have inadequate skills in literacy and
numeracy, and information technology skills are underdeveloped in half of all schools.
- More pupils are leaving school with better qualifications
than four years previously, and GCSE and A-level success has
risen steadily - but one in nine pupils fails to get five GCSEs at
grade G or above, while one in 14 leaves school without a formal
qualification after 11 years of statutory education.
- The underperformance of boys is a matter for serious
concern, as is the fact that pupils from some ethnic minority groups
often achieve below their potential.
- The amount of money spent per secondary school pupil has fallen in real terms since 1991/2, with the sharpest decline coming in the amount spent per head on building repairs and maintenance.
- Resource shortages, such as the lack of textbooks for homework and inadequate equipment to support the teaching of practical subjects, adversely affect the teaching of the National Curriculum in some subjects in a significant number of schools.
- Pupil/teacher ratios have risen from 15.8:1 in 1992 to 16.8:1 in 1996, with significant variations within and between local education authorities; the most favourable pupil/teacher ratios were in inner London.
- Since 1993, there has been a seven per cent fall in the number of male teachers and a two per cent rise in the number of female teachers; although there are now more female than male teachers in the secondary sector, more than three in every four headteachers are male.
- Over the last four years, a higher proportion of women have been appointed as headteachers to schools serving disadvantaged areas than to posts for headteachers nationally.
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