Corrections and clarifications

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/23/corrections-and-clarifications

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• An article about the achievement of pupils in London schools said that only 9% got five good grades at GCSE in 2003, compared with 70.5% now. In fact 39% achieved five good GCSE grades (A*-C including English and maths) in 2003. The comparable figure for 2014 is 61.5% (London schools have been turned around – but by policy, or by changes in ethnicity? 23 March, page 13).

• A piece about a ruling by the UN’s permanent court of arbitration at The Hague (Tribunal gives hope to islanders as it calls British rule of Diego Garcia into question, 20 March, page 4) referred to a “dissenting opinion from two of the five judges” and to the “two dissenting judges”. To clarify: the two judges did not dissent from the main judgment in the case. They issued a “dissenting and concurring opinion” that found that the tribunal had jurisdiction to deal with the issue of sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago and concluded that the UK does not have sovereignty. The three arbitrators in the majority declined to express any view on that issue.

• Other recently corrected articles include:

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