Exams chief slams GCSE grade targets

Official targets for the number of GCSE C grades teenagers should achieve should be scrapped, the head of England's exams regulator has suggested.

Isabel Nisbet, who is stepping down as chief executive of Ofqual next year, also suggested current league tables are too "simplistic" because they look at only a small number of measures.

Current league tables measure the number of pupils in each school who obtain five GCSEs at grade C or higher, including and excluding English and maths.

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Speaking at a conference in Cambridge, Ms Nisbet said: "I would get rid of targets related to the number of passes at grade C at GCSE" as a personal answer to a question about what she would do if she was Education Secretary for the day.