Speaking at The Duke of Edinburgh's Award General Council summit last week, Tomlinson said that league tables should be overhauled. "I want the information provided about schools to be a much broader indication of achievement than we have at the moment," he said.
Tomlinson, whose proposals for 14 to 19 education reform were published last month, said the current method of using grades to measure a school's success would clash with his suggested reforms, especially the idea of including out-of-school activities in young people's record of achievement.
"We've got to understand that there are different ways of people achieving," said Tomlinson. "We need a system that recognises that. Only a relatively small proportion of a young person's time is spent in school. The idea that the rest of the time they're not learning, or could not learn, seems to be absolutely indefensible. We need to put whatever resources are necessary behind this."
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