'Coasting' Schools Given 3 Years To Shape Up

Hundreds of schools will be turned into academies unless they meet tough new targets, the Education Secretary has announced. They will be defined as "coasting" if fewer than 60% of pupils gain five good GCSEs, and will be given three years to improve before facing intervention. Nicky Morgan said: "For too long a group of coasting schools, many in leafy areas with more advantages than schools in disadvantaged communities, have fallen beneath the radar.