Education (School Information and Prospectuses) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Education (School Information and Prospectuses) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993.

The Regulations make the following principal changes–

1.  Regulation 4 requires the Board of Governors to publish, in its annual report, information relating to the performance of pupils in the statutory assessments at the ends of key stages.

2.  Regulation 5 makes provision whereby a school is not required to publish assessment outcomes in such a manner as to reveal the results of any individual pupil, or to publish assessment outcomes in relation to pupils being educated in a special education unit attached to the school.

3.  Regulation 6(1) requires the Board of Governors to include in the school prospectus information about the performance of pupils in the statutory assessments at the ends of key stages. This information is the same as that required to be included in the annual report of the Board of Governors.

4.  Regulation 6(2) amends paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations to provide for the range of information, in relation to the performance of pupils in public examinations, which must be included in the school prospectus and in the annual report of the Board of Governors of a grammar school to differ from that which must be included in the school prospectus and the annual report of the Board of Governors of a secondary school which is not a grammar school.