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Article: Record results, but the East Riding still slipped
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- Hull Daily Mail (UK)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2009
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Despite achieving the best set of GCSE results in its history,
the East Riding has lost ground in the national performance table.
The improved performance of local schools is not reflected by a
higher position in the national league table of 149 authorities. The
East Riding has slipped from 32nd to 39th place because other
authorities improved more.
But the margins between similarly ranked authorities are small,
so education officials insist people should not read too much into
the annual fluctuations in the table.
Councillor Penny Peacock, East Riding portfolio holder for
schools, said: "We always take the league tables with a pinch of
salt because year-on-year our results are improving.
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