Regulation 2 Amendment

The Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 1999^f1 shall be amended as follows.

In regulation 2(2)(a) (interpretation), for “day immediately preceding the commencement of the reporting school year” there shall be substituted “31st August preceding the commencement of the reporting school year, where the reporting school year begins after that date, or the 31st August which falls within the reporting school year, where the reporting school year begins on or before that date,”.

After regulation 11 in Part III, there shall be inserted the following regulation–

“Provision of information about excluded pupils

11A

The governing body of every maintained school shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the authority, provide to the authority the information, for the period to which the request relates, referred to in Schedule 9, as appropriate, in respect of any pupil excluded from the school by the head teacher.”.

In Schedule 3 (provision of information to the Secretary of State: examination and vocational qualification results), for references wherever they occur to “the City and Guilds of London Institute” and “the Royal Society of Arts Examination Board” there shall be substituted references to, respectively, “the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance” and “the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examination Boards”.

There shall be substituted for paragraph 8 of Schedule 3, the following paragraphs–

“8

At the end of the reporting school year–

(a)

the number of registered pupils aged 16, 17 or 18 who completed the first year of study of a course leading to–

(i)

the First Certificate or Diploma of the EDEXCEL Foundation;

(ii)

the Diploma of Vocational Education of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance at intermediate level; or

(iii)

an Intermediate GNVQ awarded by the EDEXCEL Foundation, the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, or the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examination Boards; and

(b)

the number of those pupils achieving the qualifications referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i) to (iii) wholly or partly on the basis of work done in that year.

8A

At the end of the reporting school year–

(a)

the number of registered pupils aged 16, 17 or 18 who completed the second year of study of a course leading to–

(i)

the National Certificate or Diploma of the EDEXCEL Foundation; or

(ii)

the Diploma of Vocational Education of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance at national level; and

(b)

the number of those pupils achieving the qualifications referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i) and (ii) wholly or partly on the basis of work done in that year.”.

In paragraph 9 of Schedule 3–

At the end of Schedule 5 (provision of general information to the Secretary of State: secondary schools (excluding middle deemed secondary schools)) there shall be added the following paragraph–

“10

In the case of a school which has been approved by the Secretary of State as a school which specialises in–

(a)

mathematics, science and technology;

(b)

modern foreign languages;

(c)

the fine arts, performing arts or the media arts; or

(d)

sport, which of those specialisms applies to the school.”

After Schedule 8, there shall be inserted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.