HC Deb 13 December 1994 vol 251 cc609-10W
Mr. Jim Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the record of(a) city technology colleges and (b) the CTC in Birmingham, in the school league tables.

Mr. Robin Squire

I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Mr. Jamieson) on 5 December 1994,Official Report, column 125. The table shows something of the progress that the city technology colleges are making. Of the 10 CTCs which had pupils taking GCSEs in 1994, four bettered the average of their local education authority on the measure of five or more GCSEs at A to C, four improved their results over last year, and all exceeded the local LEA average for pupils gaining one or more grades A to G.

Kingshurst CTC in Solihull takes pupils from Solihull and from Birmingham. The college's GCSE results are above the national average, on a par with the Solihull average, and well above the average for Birmingham.