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The Education Development Plans (Wales) Regulations 1999

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Pupils who will attain the age of 16 years

11.—(1) The achievements of pupils who will attain the age of 16 years referred to in regulation 8 are the achievements referred to in paragraph (2) in connection with the performance of the relevant group of pupils who will attain the age of 16 years in examinations by the end of each of the school years in respect of which the targets are being set.

(2) The achievements referred to in paragraph (1) are–

(a)the percentage of pupils to achieve the core subject indicator;

(b)the percentage of girls to achieve the core subject indicator;

(c)the percentage of boys to achieve the core subject indicator;

(d)the percentage of pupils to achieve any grade from A* to C in five or more subjects in GCSE examinations;

(e)the percentage of pupils to achieve any grade from A* to G in five or more subjects in GCSE examinations; and

(f)the percentage of pupils to leave school without either achieving any grade from A* to G in GCSE examinations or passing any CoEA examinations.

(3) The references to pupils achieving particular grades in GCSE examinations in paragraph (2)(d), (e) and (f) shall be construed for the purpose of those provisions so as to include references to pupils achieving corresponding awards in an equivalent number of vocational qualifications or GCSE short course examinations.

(4) The Schedule shall have effect for determining, for the purposes of this regulation, questions as to–

(a)which vocational qualification award corresponds to which GCSE examination grade;

(b)the equivalency between GCSE examination results and vocational qualifications; and

(c)the equivalency between GCSE examination results and GCSE short course examination results.

(5) In this regulation and in regulation 12, “the relevant group of pupils who will attain the age of 16 years”, in relation to a school year, means all persons who the authority estimate–

(a)will on the Schools' Census enumeration date in that school year be registered pupils at a school maintained by the authority, and

(b)will attain the age of 16 during that school year.

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