Which qualifications count in league tables

Attached updated version of 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes - to performance tables' to add 3 qualifications which had been omitted from the original document. Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: to performance tables corrected: 1 tab row , column F, discount code amended from XA1 to XA.

Footnote of 2 removed in column J. Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: to performance tables' to include 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: to performance tables'. Update to key stage 4 qualifications spreadsheet to finalise discount codes.

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Guidance Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores. Applies to England Documents. Performance points for qualifications counting in the key stage 4 performance tables MS Excel Spreadsheet , KB. Related content English Baccalaureate: eligible qualifications School and college performance measures Secondary accountability measures including Progress 8 and Attainment 8 Performance points: comparing KS4 or 16 to 18 qualifications 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores Collection School and college performance measures.

Music exams are currently given the same value as part of a GCSE. Schools will still have the freedom to offer a range of courses but only results in the most rigorous qualifications will boost their position in league tables.

Ministers are proposing that qualifications should count only if they have been taught for at least two years and have good levels of take-up among students. Pupils must also be offered "good progression" into post courses rather than a limited number of occupational areas. The qualifications must also have a substantial proportion of external assessment.

More than 4, qualifications currently count towards school results whether or not they include external assessment. The number of "equivalent" qualifications taken in schools up to 16 has boomed in recent years from 15, in to , in The proposed changes follow a review of vocational education carried out by Professor Alison Wolf, a public policy expert.

All Cambridge Nationals qualifications that are approved for the performance tables are carried forward onto the tables. New rules will now apply for qualifications on the Key Stage 4 performance tables. Read more on our policy news page.