Written question asked by Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 February 2006. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Monday, 27 February 2006 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

GNVQs

Question: (5) what proportion of pupils who achieved five GCSEs A*-C grades including English and mathematics in (a) community schools, (b) foundation schools, (c) voluntary aided schools and (d) voluntary controlled schools did so by gaining a GNVQ in the last year for which figures are available.

Answer

The information requested is presented in the following table.

Percentages of 15-year-old pupils achieving described thresholds at GCSE and equivalent in 2005
	All schools	Community schools	Foundation schools	Voluntary aided Schools	Voluntary controlled schools
Number of pupils	636,796	371,727	95,704	82,603	20,504
Percentage of pupils assessed as pass, merit, distinction or fail at GNVQ	10.0	11.0	11.7	10.6	4.3
Percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more A* to C grades at GCSE and equivalent	56.3	51.6	61.8	64.0	62.9
Percentage of pupils who achieved 5 or more A* to C grades at GCSE or equivalent who did so by gaining a GNVQ	8.5	9.2	10.3	9.3	3.6
Percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more A* to C grades at GCSE and equivalent including English and maths	44.3	38.9	49.9	51.4	52.7
Percentage of pupils who achieved 5 or more A* to C grades at GCSE or equivalent including English and maths who did so by gaining a GNVQ	4.6	4.7	6.1	5.2	1.7
⁽³¹⁾ Consistent with statistical publications, figures for specific school types do not include results of special schools.
⁽³²⁾ The Department does not have information on numbers of GNVQ entries, only on GNVQ results; these figures include those pupils whose results were: pass, merit, distinction or fail.

Secondary information