Anything that reduces the effort of producing the statutory mountain of school paperwork is to be welcomed. Examination Results is a combined package consisting of an explanatory booklet and a Microsoft disk of templates. Compiled by the examination officer in a large secondary school, it enables his counterparts elsewhere to collate and present GCSE and A-level results for a variety of audiences. t goes well beyond the statutory requirements, allowing data to be shown not just quantitatively but comparatively and cumulatively. And by allowing the producer to work off-site, it will no doubt spare a few colleagues from stressful outbursts.

Examination Results by M F G Matthewman costs pound;29.99 from Taylor amp; Francis Books (ISBN 0 415 23226 0) and is available from bookshops.