Reearch recently carried out at Bristol University has shown that since schools in Wales have abolished their school league tables, their GCSE results have become significantly lower (on average, a decline of almost 2 GCSE grades per student) compared to their English counterparts.
As poor results were not released by the press, the weaker schools were not "named and shamed" so in turn were not as ashamed of their results as they would have been in the past. This has resulted in far less improvement in the quality of teaching and management of these schools.
This shows that although the release of school league tables may become nervewracking amongst teachers, they influence far more motivation from the staff to improve.
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