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Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many final grades at (a) GCSE and (b) A level were incorrectly awarded and subsequently corrected in each of the past five years. [86868]
Jim Knight: Data on the appeals process for the awarding bodies which set and offer GCSE, AS and A Level examinations in England are collected and published annually by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). The following tables show the information requested for 2003, 2004, and 2005. Comparable data are not available for previous years.
The information provided in the following tables is provided at a qualification level for GCSEs and at a unit level for AS and A Levels. These data cover the three English-based awarding bodies which provide these examinations.
| GCSE | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| A level | 2003 | 2004( 1) | 2005( 1) |
| (1 )The information on A Level examinations for 2004 and 2005 includes AS, A Level and Vocational Certificate of Education (VCE) examinations. (2 )The number of entries for A level examinations is the number of separate units awarded in the summer examination series, rather than the number of complete A level qualifications in that series, as each qualification comprises a number of units, and the final result of each unit can be queried or changed. | |||
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many appeals there were against final grades awarded at (a) GCSE and (b) A level in each of the past five years. [86869]
Jim Knight: Data on the number of appeals are collected annually by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) as the regulatory authority for the public examinations system in England. The appeals procedure can only be invoked once the Enquiries about Results (EAR) services has been exhausted.
The following table shows the information requested for 2003, 2004, and 2005 for the awarding bodies based in England which offer GCSE, AS and A Level qualifications. Comparable data are not available for previous years. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of this data by qualification.
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of students in English schools taking GCSE (a) Art, (b) Drama and (c) Music achieved grades A* to C in the last period for which figures are available. [87010]
Jim Knight: The following table shows pupils(1) achieving a grade A*-C at GCSE in 2005 in (a) Art and Design, (b) Drama, and (c) Music, as a percentage of pupils who attempted the subject.
| Subject | Number of pupils( 1) (Thousand) | Percentage achieving A*-C |
| (1 )Pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 who attempted GCSE in the 2004-05 academic year | ||
Free School Meals
Mr. Wills: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many primary school pupils were eligible for free school meals in Swindon in each year since 1997; what percentage of the total this represented in each year; and how many took up their entitlement in each year. [86639]
Jim Knight: The available information is shown in the tables.
| Maintained primary schools( 1) : school meal arrangements 1997-2006( 2) . Position in January each year. Swindon local authority and England | |||||
| Swindon local authority area( 3) | |||||
| Number on roll( 4) | Number of pupils taking free school meals | Percentage taking free school meals | Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals | Percentage known to be eligible for free school meals | |
| England | |||||
| Number on roll( 4) | Number of pupils taking free school meals | Percentage taking free school meals | Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals | Percentage known to be eligible for free school meals | |
| (1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2 )Provisional. (3 )Swindon local authority was formed in April 1997 as a result of Local Government Reorganisation, therefore there is no data available prior to this. (4 )Prior to 2003 ‘Number on roll’ includes all full-time and part-time pupils who are solely registered, excluding boarding pupils. Due to underlying changes in data collection, this coverage was extended to also include all pupils with dual (main) registration and boarding pupils from 2003. Source: Schools Census. | |||||
Higher Education
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many students from Cornwall were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time higher education in the UK excluding Cornwall in each year since 1990, broken down by (i) the socio-economic classifications of students’ parents or guardians, (ii) sex and (iii) age; [85064]
(2) how many students were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time higher education in Cornwall in each year since 1990, broken down by (i) the socio-economic classifications of students’ parents or guardians, (ii) sex and (iii) age. [85065]
Bill Rammell [holding answer 13 July 2006]: The latest available information is shown in the tables. Data for the years prior to 1996/97 are not held centrally.
| Undergraduate students from the UK studying in Cornwall( 1) | ||||||||
| 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/2000 | |||||
| FT | PT | FT | PT | FT | PT | FT | PT | |
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