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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-local-education-authority-performance-targets-england-regulations-2005/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2450",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Local Education Authority Performance Targets) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-local-education-authority-performance-targets-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Approved qualifications targets",
  "text": "(1) The following targets in connection with the performance of the relevant group of pupils aged 15 in approved qualifications—\n(a) the percentage of the relevant group of pupils aged 15 to achieve, by the end of the school year, the level 2 threshold in approved qualifications; and\n(b) the average point score per pupil to be achieved by the relevant group of pupils aged 15 by the end of the school year in approved qualifications.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 7, questions as to the points allocated to each approved qualification award for the purposes of calculating the average point score shall be determined in accordance with the database of accredited qualifications as published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.\n(3) In this paragraph “the relevant group of pupils aged 15” means all persons who, in the school year, the local education authority anticipates—\n(a) will be registered pupils at a maintained school on the third Thursday in January, and\n(b) will have attained the age of 15 during the period of twelve months ending on the 31st August immediately preceding that day.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority was established under section 21 of the Education Act 1997 (c. 44). The database is accessible at www.openquals.org.uk."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2450/schedule/paragraph/3",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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