Education (Target-Setting in Schools) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Target-Setting in Schools) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 25th September 1998.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1989 Order” means the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(1);

“GCE A level” means General Certificate of Education advanced level;

“GCSE” means General Certificate of Secondary Education;

“GNVQ” means General National Vocational Qualification;

“level of attainment” means a level set out in any document of a kind referred to in Article 7(5) of the 1989 Order the provisions of which have effect, or (as the case may be) have effect as amended, by virtue of any order made under Article 7(1)(a) of that Order;

“NVQ” means National Vocational Qualification.

Application

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations shall apply to all grant-aided schools.

(2) These Regulations shall not apply to—

(a) any nursery school;

(b) any school attended wholly by pupils up to and including the end of the third year following the lower limit of compulsory school age; or

(c) any special school.

Duty to set targets

4.—(1) The Board of Governors of each grant-aided school to which these Regulations apply, in consultation with the principal of the school, shall set targets for the overall performance of pupils at the school.

(2) The targets shall be set in the first term of every school year.

5.  The targets to be set in accordance with regulation 4 shall be:

(a) in the case of a primary school, in relation to each of the measures of performance specified in Schedule 1; and

(b) in the case of a secondary school, in relation to each of the measures of performance specified in Schedule 2.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on

L.S.

C. Jendoubi

Assistant Secretary

27th August 1998.