THE number of schools branded by inspectors as failing rose sharply last year.
The Office for Standards in Education placed 24 per cent more schools in special measures during 2002/3 than it did in 2001/2. The number of schools in England failing an inspection rose from 129 in 2001/02 to 160 in the last school year.
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