Podcast: Kent’s secondary schools ranked in latest league tables – but heads warn results are not what they seem

Kent and Medway’s best-performing secondary schools have been ranked from best to worst by GCSE results. However some education experts warn a legacy of Covid means the latest league table isn’t the “fairest” measure of performance. Also in today’s podcast, a man has died in a crash involving a car and a water tanker.The motorist was travelling on the A2070 Ashford Road in Hamstreet yesterday afternoon when it collided with a purple tanker heading the opposite way.Pressure is piling on the boss of South East Water with more local leaders calling for his resignation following water supply outages. Thousands of properties and businesses have been affected and several schools around the county are closed again today.Hopes of saving a town’s library building have been dealt a fresh blow - and the site may proceed to an auction sale next month.But the deputy leader of Reform UK-run Kent County Council says the “door remains fully open” for alternative proposals for the site at Grace Hill in Folkestone – community groups have been campaigning for it to be saved. And a new support group has been set up in Kent for bereaved parents, by a nurse who lost her own son You can hear from Amber Selvey, whose son died from a rare genetic condition in 2023 - she's now launched Together in Grief based in Whitstable.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.