School league tables to be scrapped
Traditional league tables are expected to be scrapped as the Scottish Executive unveiled plans for "radical" changes in schools.

Education Minister Peter Peacock said he wanted to give parents "more meaningful" information on their children's progress.

He also announced a series of steps to revamp the curriculum, including the replacement of the current system of tests for five to 14-year-olds.

Welsh school league tables abolished
Secondary school league tables are to be abolished in Wales, almost a decade after they first appeared.

Welsh Assembly Education Minister Jane Davidson said performance tables were divisive and placed an unnecessary burden on schools.

Instead schools will publish their own results in their prospectuses and governors' annual reports, which parents will be able to compare with average figures for schools in the area and nationally.

School league tables scrapped
The controversial school performance tables are being scrapped in Northern Ireland.

Teachers' unions are pleased, but there has been criticism that the move ignores the views of the Northern Ireland Assembly education committee.

The so-called "school league tables" have caused controversy since the government started to publish them in 1993, and three quarters of the responses to a recent consultation paper favoured abolishing them.

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