Inspector calls for Stoke-on-Trent schools to do better at GCSE

Education watchdog Ofsted today praised GCSE improvements in the city's high schools – but warned they still have 'a long way to go' to ensure more pupils achieve good grades.
The comments came just as provisional results showed students across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Cheshire East made slightly less progress than expected between the ages of 11 and 16. But the proportion of teenagers leaving school with A* to C passes in both maths and English has shot up this year.
In an interview with The Sentinel, Ofsted highlighted how the picture was very mixed. James McNeillie, senior HM... read more