More Information

If you have any questions about the information in the tables, including the qualifications mentioned, you should first contact the school or college concerned.

The School and College (16-18) Performance Tables booklets are printed as a series of 24 booklets, covering the Further Education Funding Council regions. There are also 119 Secondary School Performance Tables booklets, one for each Local Education Authority.

If you would like:

• printed booklets which include results for 16 to 18 year-olds in Further Education sector colleges;
• printed booklets which include examination results and rates of pupil absence in secondary schools;
• computer disks, containing the data from all the Secondary School and School and College Performance Tables, for PCs running Windows 3.1 or above;

you can get these, free of charge, by using the freephone number 0800 24 23 22 or freepost address:

School and College Performance Tables
Department for Education and Employment
FREEPOST 402
LONDON SW1P 3JY

Internet

The Secondary School Performance Tables and School and College Performance Tables for 1996 will be available on:

Archive

You can find more information on choosing courses, and on the difference between GCE A levels, AS examinations and vocational qualifications, in the booklet It's your choice

You may also like a copy of the Department's leaflet on The New Qualifications Framework, which gives a brief guide to the three main kinds of qualifications available at the age of 16 and beyond to prepare for higher education and work.

If your child will be starting at secondary school in September 1997, you may find it helpful to read our leaflet called Your child's next school.

You can get copies of all these leaflets from:

DfEE Publication Centre
PO Box 6927
London E3 3NZ

0171-510 0150.

The Department also publishes Training and Enterprise Council performance tables. These include comparisons of the achievements of TECs in delivering work-based Youth Training programmes. For more information contact:

TEC Performance Indicators and Analysis Unit
Department for Education and Employment
Moorfoot
Sheffield S1 4PQ

0114-259 3259.