Without taking into account the real-terms effects of inflation and the loss of the education services grant, the report suggests that: The new formula will shift funding away from the most disadvantaged pupils towards those who are ‘just about managing’ Though the most deprived primary and secondary schools will together see a net gain of £5.6 million overall, the most deprived secondary schools will actually see losses (primaries will gain around 0.4% on average while secondaries will lose around 0.3% on average) Schools with a free school meals rate of under 30% will gain £275 million overall (a gain of 1% for primaries and 0.9% for secondaries) Pupils who live in the least deprived areas will experience the highest relative gains The lowest performing schools will gain £78.5 million more, overall, than top performing schools In London, the highest performing primary schools will see a net loss of around £16.6 million Small primary schools will see an average gain of 3.5% (or £22.7 million overall) Small secondary schools will not see any changes to their budgets, on average The chief analyst at the DfE has estimated that just two pupils in England are likely to get all top grades in the new being phased in from this summer. In recent years, parents, pupils and teachers have become accustomed to a sizeable number of the highest-achieving students in the most academically successful schools gaining all straight A*s in their GCSE examinations. But according to Dr Tim Leunig, who is also chief scientific adviser to the DfE, the new, more rigorous exams - which will be graded from 9-1 rather than A*-G – with 9 as the highest – will mean very few pupils are able to gain straight 9s in all their subjects. Exam Boards disagree, and say hundreds of students will achieve them From August 2015, all 16 to 18-year-old students with a maths and English GCSE grade below C have had to study and resit the GCSE as part of the condition of funding, rather than a functional skills qualification at level two. It is a strong rumour that the DfE is going to scrap this so that no student will be forced to resit GCSE English and maths and functional skills qualifications will be accepted
Without taking into account the real-terms effects of inflation and the loss of the education services grant, the report suggests that: The new formula will shift funding away from the most disadvantaged pupils towards those who are ‘just about managing’ Though the most deprived primary and secondary schools will together see a net gain of £5.6 million overall, the most deprived secondary schools will actually see losses (primaries will gain around 0.4% on average while secondaries will lose around 0.3% on average) Schools with a free school meals rate of under 30% will gain £275 million overall (a gain of 1% for primaries and 0.9% for secondaries) Pupils who live in the least deprived areas will experience the highest relative gains The lowest performing schools will gain £78.5 million more, overall, than top performing schools In London, the highest performing primary schools will see a net loss of around £16.6 million Small primary schools will see an average gain of 3.5% (or £22.7 million overall) Small secondary schools will not see any changes to their budgets, on average The chief analyst at the DfE has estimated that just two pupils in England are likely to get all top grades in the new being phased in from this summer. In recent years, parents, pupils and teachers have become accustomed to a sizeable number of the highest-achieving students in the most academically successful schools gaining all straight A*s in their GCSE examinations. But according to Dr Tim Leunig, who is also chief scientific adviser to the DfE, the new, more rigorous exams - which will be graded from 9-1 rather than A*-G – with 9 as the highest – will mean very few pupils are able to gain straight 9s in all their subjects. Exam Boards disagree, and say hundreds of students will achieve them From August 2015, all 16 to 18-year-old students with a maths and English GCSE grade below C have had to study and resit the GCSE as part of the condition of funding, rather than a functional skills qualification at level two. It is a strong rumour that the DfE is going to scrap this so that no student will be forced to resit GCSE English and maths and functional skills qualifications will be accepted
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