‘Exams have been cancelled…and replaced with more exams’
Many things will puzzle educational historians when they look back on 2021 with the considerable benefit of hindsight. High on ...
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Ofqual undecided on 2022 exams
Ofqual is yet to decide whether A-levels and GCSEs will return in their usual format in 2022, the watchdog’s interim ...
Concerns over excessive testing to calculate exam grades
Headteachers are under pressure to make pupils sit high numbers of tests and use historical data about past performance to ...
‘Exam grades are being decided by pub quiz-style testing’
There is something almost comedic about this year’s Centre Assessed Grades. Comedic perhaps, if it were not for that fact ...
‘Students must feel their exam grades are truly deserved’
The news that schools will be expected to provide grades for their students at A-level and GCSE will have been ...
Schools should ‘keep records’ of parental exam grade pressure
Schools should keep records of any teachers coming under pressure from pupils and parents to bump up exam grades this ...
‘Claims of deliberate grade inflation are crass and undermine the profession’
The chaos of August 2020 is a situation we all want to avoid. We do not need to be reminded ...
Call for ministers to outline plans for 2022 exams
The Labour Party is calling for next year’s GCSEs to be adjusted to account for the fact that Year 10 ...
London state school gets more Oxbridge offers than Eton
Students at a London state school have received more offers from Oxbridge than Eton College for the first time, The ...
No plans to scrap GCSEs, says schools minister
There are no plans to axe GCSEs after the Covid crisis, schools minister Nick Gibb has told the Education Select ...
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