Achievement
In the college's latest Ofsted report in 2010, the College was deemed to be at least satisfactory in all areas. In 2012 the College achieved results of 47% of students gaining at least 5 GCSEs at C grade or above including English and Mathematics, an improvement of 14.6% since 2007.
Read more about this topic: Rushden Community College
Famous quotes containing the word achievement:
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“Next to our free political institutions, our free public-school system ranks as the greatest achievement of democratic life in America ...”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)