{"id":21036,"date":"2019-09-08T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=21036"},"modified":"2019-09-08T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:49:38","slug":"10k-pupils-were-off-rolled-gcse-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/10k-pupils-were-off-rolled-gcse-results\/","title":{"rendered":"10k pupils were off-rolled to boost GCSE results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to a recent report released by the Office for Standards in Education, Children&#8217;s Services and Skills (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/ofsted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ofsted<\/a><\/strong><strong>), more than ten thousand pupils were off-rolled from British public schools this year. Many of the pupils were in-between year ten and year eleven when GCSE exams are taken.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe reason behind this strange disappearance of students from school registries can be explained by the increased pressure on schools to perform better on GCSE. A large part of the government funding education institutions receive is directly related to their students\u2019 performance on national tests.<br \/>\n<strong>According to Ofsted, there are around three hundred and forty (340) public schools in England, which display a heightened level of student transfers.<\/strong> The report further details that among these schools, an average of thirteen students (13) students have left.<\/p>\n<h2>10k pupils were off-rolled, but did they go to another school?<\/h2>\n<p>One of the main concerns for auditors from Ofsted is not that so many pupils were off-rolled, but that many of them did not re-enter the public educational system.<br \/>\n<strong>Unfortunately, more than fifty percent of the ten thousand pupils off-rolled have not been traced to a new public school, which means that they probably entered an independent institution, or decided to stay home-schooled. <\/strong><br \/>\nThere is a rising tendency for families to prefer sending their children to private institutions, or finding teachers for them, so they remain on a home-schooling schedule. Most of these families have decided to switch to an alternative because of the rising dissatisfaction with the public education system in the United Kingdom (UK).<br \/>\nThere are reports that some families in Wales got to the point where they had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/wales-budget-cuts-parents-pay-for-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pay for their children\u2019s music and art classes<\/a>, even though they are part of the curriculum in public schools.<br \/>\n<strong>While schools are trying to reach a certain standard and perform better on GCSEs, many pupils were unfoundedly off-rolled in the past several years. This is an illegal practice, and Ofsted has promised to keep an eye on the schools where there is a heightened student movement, to battle the worrying tendency.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent report released by the Office for Standards in Education, Children&#8217;s Services and Skills (Ofsted), more than ten thousand pupils were off-rolled from British public schools this year. Many of the pupils were in-between year ten and year eleven when GCSE exams are taken. The reason behind this strange disappearance of students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}