Teachers will grade school pupils’ GCSE and A-level grades this summer after exams were scrapped due to Covid-related school closures, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson revealed today. The exams that were due to be sat in May and June this year will be replaced by school-based assessments, he told the Commons in a statement this afternoon. … Read more
GCSE and A-level exams will be made easier in 2021 after ‘unprecedented disruption’ to learning caused by coronavirus pandemic GCSEs and A-Levels in 2021 will be given the topics in advance of their exams Education Secretary Gavin Williams has vowed not to cancel next year’s exams Exams in Wales have been cancelled, while Scotland will … Read more
GCSE and A-level pupils will be told what is on their exam papers in advance and will be ‘marked more generously’, according to plans expected to be unveiled by the Department for Education Students with an asterisk by their grade should be looked on kindly by colleges Exam boards will tell schools which subject areas … Read more
There have been more than 1,000 outbreaks of coronavirus in educational settings since schools reopened in September, the Government’s scientific advisers have suggested. An outbreak or cluster is classed by Public Health England (PHE) as two or more positive cases of Covid-19 related to one setting. A document released by the Scientific Advisory Group for … Read more
Is it the end of predicted grades for university? Pupils will get degree course offer AFTER they receive their A-level results under new plan Radical new plans to overhaul the system based on teacher’s predicted grades Pupils will be offered university places only after their A-level results in August Reform is based on a UUK … Read more
Wales CANCELS all A-Level and GSCE exams in 2021 with pupils getting grades from coursework and assessments instead amid on-going coronavirus class disruption Welsh education minister Kirsty Williams made announcement today Said next summer’s papers would be replaced by coursework and assessments Pandemic made it ‘impossible to guarantee a level playing field for exams’ By … Read more
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson confirms GCSE and A-Level exams WILL go ahead but be delayed by three weeks next summer amid fears over lost class time for pupils By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 12:56 BST, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 13:42 BST, 12 October 2020 Most A-level and GCSE exams in England … Read more
Union calls for GCSE and A-Level exams to be ‘pared down’ next year because students will still be struggling with the fallout from missed lessons from the height of the pandemic ASCL leader Geoff Barton said proposed three-week delay was not long enough Suggested exams be ‘pared down’, removing subjects there was no time to … Read more
Boris Johnson will use a speech to promise guaranteed opportunities for life-long learning as he looks to help create a jobs recovery after the pandemic. Chancellor Rishi Sunak last week, when unveiling his plan to support jobs after the furlough scheme is wound down next month, admitted not every job can be saved following the … Read more
A-Level student, 18, becomes one of youngest people in UK ever to die from bowel cancer – as her mother reveals heartbreaking moment her ‘world fell apart’ when diagnosis was terminal Charlotte Simpson, 18, from Hampshire was told she had weeks to live in April The A-Level student hoped to study primary school teaching at … Read more