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Private entrants to GCSEs and A-levels face second year of delays

Published: 17 Jan 2021
GCSE, A-level and Sats exams to be scrapped in England this year

Published: 6 Jan 2021

Wales qualifications body urges scrapping of next year's exams

Welsh government told there should be no GCSE and AS-level exams, and single paper for A-levels

Published: 28 Oct 2020

'You stupid boy': Boris ticks Private Williamson off over exams U-turn

John Crace

The education secretary struggles in vain to avoid looking a hopeless numpty over the grading debacle

Published: 3:03 PM

Published: 3:03 PM
'A rollercoaster of emotions': students describe sharp end of exams fiasco

Published: 2:27 PM
A-level and GCSE results in England to be based on teacher assessments in U-turn

Published: 11:57 AM

A-level results raise policy questions – but first let's celebrate achievement

Despite the upheaval of the redesigned qualifications, many trends persist

Published: 16 Aug 2018

Perfectionism is destroying the mental health of my millennial generation

Daisy Buchanan

It all began at school, with A-star expectations and a horror of failure. Now we’re on social media platforms, locked into a losing game, says the freelance writer Daisy Buchanan

Published: 5 Jan 2018

Published: 5 Jan 2018

Head of school that forced students out for missing grades suspended

Headteacher of grammar which excluded students who failed to get three Bs at AS-level is suspended pending inquiry

Published: 19 Oct 2017

St Olave’s exclusions practice was no secret – we pupils all knew

Jack Cornish

It was always made clear to us that the focus was on the school’s performance, to the neglect of individuals’ welfare

Published: 1 Sep 2017

Published: 1 Sep 2017

Drop in grades for 'reformed' A-levels unlikely to be down to difficulty

Outcome of the exams is more likely to be linked to the GCSE results of the cohort taking them, than to tests being tougher

Published: 17 Aug 2017

Cutbacks force 90% of colleges to offer pupils only three AS-levels

Students to see larger class sizes and fewer subjects and extracurricular activities on offer due to broad funding cuts says new report

Published: 26 Oct 2016

What A-level results day tells us about British students

While results nationally have remained broadly the same, they disguise significant changes at a subnational level

Published: 18 Aug 2016

Exam appeals change could make it tougher to challenge results

GCSE, AS and A-level examiners will only act on clear marking errors after complaints too many students received boosted grades

Published: 26 May 2016

Preschool education boosts children's academic success, research finds

Study of 3,000 children suggests significantly more preschoolers end up taking academic route into university than those without same educational start

Published: 11 Dec 2015

Number of white working class boys taking AS or A-levels 'shockingly low'

Research by Oxford University reveals only 29% progress to sixth form compared with 46% from more affluent areas, showing ‘double disadvantage’

Published: 11 Nov 2015

Fears over unfair university admissions as AS-levels disappear

Universities are trying to decide how to assess candidates after changes to sixth-form exams. Will they be forced to rely more on GCSE results and teacher predictions?

Published: 8 Sep 2015

Ensuring all pupils reach basic levels of achievement 'could boost economy'

Economy could grow by more than £2tn by 2095 if underachievers learn basic skills at school and gender gap in some subjects is ended, says report

Published: 12 May 2015

Headteachers criticise government’s ‘chaotic’ overhaul of A-levels

Four subjects scrapped and other courses delayed by lack of accreditation, leaving schools struggling to plan teaching

Published: 2 Dec 2014
Maths A-level changes delayed to allow more time to prepare

Delay until 2017 means students will benefit from having taken new maths GCSEs being introduced in 2015

Published: 1 Dec 2014

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