As we were walking up the driveway our eyes started dancing at the quality items on the tables before us.

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If the Prosperous Suburbia Primary School has 60% of pupils receiving private tuition while the Deprived Inner City Primary has none, then how much of a guide are the league tables to the relative quality of teaching at these two schools?

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Now only high quality courses will count in the league tables and it is great news that new courses are being designed.

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From January 2014, "only the highest quality qualifications" will be included in the tables, the Department for Education said.

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Perhaps school league-tables and regular inspections are improving the quality of teaching.

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Its quality, appearance and placement are far more important than that of lesser tables.

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The government has long argued that including a wide range of qualifications as GCSE equivalents in the tables can create "perverse incentives" for schools to offer lower quality qualifications.

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Lower quality vocational qualifications which can count for several GCSEs are to be axed from England's school league tables, the government says.

BBC: Many vocational courses axed from league tables

The tables at right display the outfits that RateFinancials puts at the top and at the bottom of the quality scale.

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