Education : Results Don't Tell the Full Story ; Birmingham Issued Its Gcse and a-Level Exam Results Yesterday but All Is Not As It Appears, As Education Correspondent Shahid Naqvi Reports

Birmingham Post › November 22, 2005

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Kings Norton High School's achievement in more than tripling the proportion of pupils getting five good GCSEs this year was impressive.

Indeed, its success in going from 16 per cent of pupils gaining five or more good GCSEs to 50 per cent in a year was front page news in this paper. At the time, it was attributed to a "pioneering scheme" in which the once failing school had entered a federation with Kings Norton Girls, a city high-flyer headed by Pat Beanland.

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Education : Results Don't Tell the Full Story ; Birmingham Issued Its Gcse and a-Level Exam Results Yesterday but All Is Not As It Appears, As Education Correspondent Shahid Naqvi Reports

City council official Nicky Kendall, who was appointed head teacher, said: "We are absolutely delighted with these results which are a credit to the hard work and dedication of ...

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