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- From: eo@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Emma Osman)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Those league tables
- Message-ID: <By0wDw.Ly6@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:27:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.101056.2573@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: eo@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Emma Osman)
- Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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- In article <1992Nov20.101056.2573@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
- >The copy in my Grauniad of yesterday listed 5 Cambridgeshire schools
- >called "The Village College" (they simply omitted the name of the
- >village, which is part of the address).
- >
- >While I wasn't actually expecting much enlightenment from these
- >curious "statistics", I would love to know whether this was just a
- >Guradina-ism, or whether the DES-published list makes the same
- >boo-boo. And no, I'm not going to encourage them by asking for a copy
- >for myself...
- >--
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- It was the DES - as well as a few other insignificant little mistakes like
- recording a school with 100% pass rate as 16% (mind you, the school in
- question probably bumped their pass rate up by not letting anyone sit it
- who they thought would fail , but not by *that* much!)
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- Emma
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- | Emma Osman | Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you. |
- | eo@dcs.ed.ac.uk | - Carl Jung |
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