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North-South divide in GCSE results

Ruth Tarrant

1st December 2015

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A report published today by Ofsted's boss Michael Wilshaw claims that one third of secondary schools in the North of England and the Midlands are not good enough. This comes after a report earlier in November which identified schools in many coastal areas as being unsatisfactory. The BBC has produced this GCSE "heat map" showing the GCSE performance in different regions:

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.