Impact assessment

GCSE reform equality analysis

This document assesses the effects of GCSE reform on protected groups.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 15 March 2013

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

GCSE reform equality analysis

Ref: DFE-00326-2013

PDF, 564 KB, 25 pages

Details

The 3 fundamental strands of the policy that are considered in this equality analysis are:

• the effect of higher performance expectations
• the effect of the subjects offered
• the effect of the proposed assessment characteristics

The relevant protected characteristics are age (except in the case of schools and children’s homes), gender, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and sex and sexual orientation.

Published 15 March 2013