Overview At the time of this report, statistics on pupil suspensions and expulsions in Northern Ireland are published as official statistics in development by the Department of Education (DE). The statistics report the frequency, behavioural reasons and demographic breakdowns of pupil suspensions and expulsions from Northern Ireland schools. They are used to identify inequalities, direct […]
This report concludes that the statistics on the characteristics of schools and pupils should retain their National Statistics status, as long as DfE demonstrates it has enhanced their value, quality and trustworthiness in the ways that we describe in chapters one to three. We temporarily removed the National Statistics status of statistics on unlawfully large […]
The Authority awarded National Statistics status in 2014 to school-level attainment statistics for England as presented in DfE’s Performance Tables. Following an enquiry about access to education attainment data highlighting the absence of unregulated IGCSEs from attainment statistics, the Director General for Regulation commissioned an investigation to gather new evidence about the school-level attainment statistics […]
Protocol 2 Practice 4 of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics provides for statistical reports to be published at 9.30am on a weekday. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that it plans to bring forward publication of key stage 2 assessment results compared with previous years. Because of the compressed timescale, DfE told […]