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Co-op becomes first British supermarket to reject GM crops and animals without strict assessments 

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Co-op joins war on ‘Frankenfood’: Store becomes first British supermarket to reject GM crops and animals without strict assessments The company has thrown its weight behind the #NotInMySupermarket campaign The food campaign is coordinated by the groups Beyond GM and SlowFood UK According to surveys, majority of UK shoppers oppose genetically modified food By Sean … Read more

GCSEs should be scrapped next year and replaced with school-based assessments, leading head says 

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GCSE exams should be replaced by school-based assessments next year amid coronavirus disruption, Portsmouth High School GDST headmistress Jane Prescott said GCSE exams should be replaced by school-based assessments next year amid coronavirus disruption, a leading headteacher has said. Changes could also be made to A-level exams so there is less content or fewer papers … Read more

Major U-turn as A levels AND GCSEs will now be based on teachers’ assessments

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Ministers completed a humiliating exams U-turn today and agreed to allow A-level and GCSE results in England to be based on teachers’ assessments after a furious row over grades. Regulator Ofqual confirmed this afternoon that England would follow steps already taken by Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland after a controversial computer algorithm marked down thousands of … Read more

Professor suspended after refusing request for lenient marking of black students’ assessments 

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A professor at the University of California in Los Angeles has been suspended and placed under police protection after he rejected his non-black students’ appeals for him to be lenient with his black students. Gordon Klein, an accounting professor in the Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for 39 years, was suspended … Read more