pounds 300 TO PASS YOUR SCHOOL EXAMS.(News)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: March 21, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: RICHARD SMITH

A SCHOOL is offering pupils up to pounds 300 to make them work harder and pass exams.

St George Community College is giving GCSE pupils pounds 10 if they get the grade a teacher sets them as a target and pounds 15 for each target they exceed.

They get another pounds 150 for going into higher education after taking a possible 10 GCSEs. But Nigel de Gruchy, leader of union NASUWT, said: "It sends completely the wrong message. <...

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