The Education (School Performance Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 1996.

They add requirements as to the information to be provided to the Secretary of State by schools relating to pupils aged 15. The information about General National Vocational Qualifications (“GNVQ”) is now particularised and relates to information about a Part One GNVQ, an Intermediate GNVQ, a Foundation GNVQ and a GNVQ Language Unit (regulation 2(3)).

These Regulations also require the provision of “individual performance information” to the Secretary of State.

Section 20 of the Education Act 1997 creates a new section 537A of the Education Act 1996. Section 537A(2) defines “individual performance information” to mean:

• “information about the performance of individual pupils (identified in the prescribed manner)—

  (a)

  in any assessment made for the purposes of the National Curriculum or in accordance with a baseline assessment scheme (within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part IV of the Education Act 1997);

  (b)

  in any prescribed public examination;

  (c)

  in connection with the attainment of any vocational qualification; or

  (d)

  in any such other assessment or examination, or in connection with the attainment of any such other qualification, as may be prescribed.”

These Regulations require the provision of individual performance information to the Secretary of State which relates to GCSE and GNVQ for pupils aged 15 (regulation 2(5)) and to GCE ‘A’ level examinations and GCE ‘AS’ examinations for pupils aged 16, 17 or 18 (regulation 2(6)).