Desperate students are falling for scams on TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram and parting with anything from £7.50 to a ...
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The interim report proposed a new Scottish Diploma of Achievement model that could replace National 5s, Highers and A...
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It is the first time students have taken Higher, Advanced Higher and National 5 exams since 2019 due to the Covid pan...
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Dr Jo Saxton, Ofqual's chief regulator, said that schools achieving higher results than 2021 “will be few and far bet...
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It is the second time that the AQA has blundered over the “advance information” it provided to pupils before exams
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AQA has apologised for the blunder, which saw GCSE physics students grilled on a topic which the exam board had told ...
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Students sitting GCSE English, history, ancient history and geography will not be given a choice of topics and conten...
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Ofqual will look at 'adaptive testing' – computer-based tests which vary the difficulty of questions based on how wel...
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Teenagers who test positive for Covid are advised to stay at home for three days during their GCSE and A-level exams....
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Covid absences are once again on the increase in England's schools, with nearly one in 10 teachers off last Thursday
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Lord Blunkett, the former Labour Education Secretary, said: 'While GCSEs work for the majority, others are unable to ...
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Some teachers and students have expressed worries about discrepancies between the advance information for different e...
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Ofqual's chief regulator, Dr Jo Saxton, rebuffed calls for an overhaul of GCSEs, saying teenagers "need help and supp...
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Dr Jo Saxton, the chief regulator of Ofqual, admitted that the failed attempt to hold exams last year was “coloured w...
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The information covers about 300 specifications across GCSE, AS and A-levels and will appear on exam board websites o...
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Pearson Edexcel will replace its textbook with a set of “digital learning resources” to defuse a row about the teachi...
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The Independent Assessment Commission set up by the National Education Union said that there should be 'no arbitrary ...
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It will be the first time that National 5, Higher, and Advanced Higher exams have taken place since 2019, after being...
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Headteachers have pointed out that “adaptations” to GCSE and A-level exams were put in place prior to the emergence o...
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Shirley-Anne Somerville said the “very latest” that this year’s exams would be cancelled would be the end of March
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Ofqual is set to confirm on 7 February the arrangements for the summer
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Exam boards fear problems as Ofqual and Government get to grips with pandemic grade inflation
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Headteachers say teenagers are constantly on edge because they worry routine tests could be used to decide GCSE or A-...
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The pandemic has reinvigorated debate about whether GCSE and A-level exams should be taken on computers - but how wou...
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Colin Hughes, the chief executive of the AQA exam board, said computer-based GCSEs would bring multiple benefits and ...
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Sarah Fletcher, the high mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School in London, said that the current assessment system is "f...
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The pandemic has emboldened the anti-GCSE lobby but they are meeting stiff resistance
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The proportion of top grades handed out could fall by around 10 percentage points next year
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Children experienced no significant change in how they felt about themselves, their school or their family life in th...
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Ministers believe that resetting A-level standards would benefit from the introduction of numerical grades to create ...
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If the changes go ahead, it could mean that some pupils will be able to leave school at 16 without sitting any formal...
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Ministers have said they want to bring back exams in England in 2022, but are yet to provide details on how they will...
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Nicola Sturgeon indicated that the importance of exams could be downgraded in the future, arguing it was time to “con...
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The SQA will be replaced with a new organisation responsible for both setting the curriculum and then assessing pupil...
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'What I want to do is give them all what they think they deserve, but what I have to do is give them what they have m...
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Eleven education organisations said removing funding for Btecs would “leave many students without a viable pathway at...
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'Schools have had to do all the marking, grading and quality assurance that would normally be carried out by exam boa...
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Nicola Sturgeon said there would be a “quality assurance process” in place to check the provisional grades put forwar...
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Education Scotland said most councils had developed “data analysis tools” allowing pupils’ performance to be compared...
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