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
GCSE and A-Level grade boundaries should be LOWERED next year to compensate for pandemic, Ofqual says Ofqual is urging Government to ensure that exams are ‘less daunting’ in 2021 Chief regulator Dame Glenys Stacey has written letter to Education Secretary Argues that pandemic is impacting learning so exams should be more lenient By Ross Ibbetson … Read more
New ‘super-exam’ for solicitors will be brought in from next autumn meaning aspiring lawyers will no longer need university degrees to qualify Aspiring lawyers will no longer need degrees as new exam is introduced The new Solicitors Qualifying Exam will be introduced from autumn 2021 The new process will involve testing of advocacy skills and … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: UK’s hard-earned fiscal and monetary credibility, a willingness to invest in infrastructure, flexible labour and healthy banking sector should help restore prosperity Borrowing may hit £400billion this year and debt is set to soar further above £2trillion, but it is not the time to withdraw support yet The IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva singled out … Read more
Wales should scrap GCSE exams next summer and instead award grades on pupils’ coursework and assessments, a testing regulator has said. Qualifications Wales said A-Level students should continue to be graded as normal, but younger pupils should face a relaxed system. It comes after the summer’s exam season turned into a fiasco as tests were … Read more
Borat and his teenage daughter Tutar force Jimmy Kimmel to strip down to his underwear for a COVID-19 exam… before they demand chat show host make her his second wife By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 09:20 BST, 21 October 2020 | Updated: 09:20 BST, 21 October 2020 Jimmy Kimmel barely got to ask a single … Read more
‘It’s like an exam hall!’ Edinburgh University freshers eat their meals on individual wooden desks all facing the front to enforce social distancing A first-year student told MailOnline it was like eating ‘under exam conditions A rigid floor plan in the Pollock Halls dining room appears to stifle conversation Edinburgh University has 154 coronavirus cases among students … Read more
Boris Johnson fired the top civil servant at the Department for Education today saying ‘fresh official leadership’ was needed after the A-Level and GCSE exam fiasco. Jonathan Slater will step down on September 1, it was announced today, the day after Ofqual chief executive Sally Collier resigned from her post int he wake of the … Read more
Dozens of protestors attended an A-level results demonstration outside Downing Street calling for the immediate sacking of Gavin Williamson. Students and teachers have demanded for the Education Secretary to be sacked at Friday’s protest over A-level and Btec results in England. The event, supported by several London branches of the National Education Union (NEU), saw … Read more
Where is Boris? We are told he’s camping in Scotland with fiancée Carrie Symonds and baby son Wilfred. It’s hard to imagine him banging in tent pegs, or hunched over a flickering Primus stove. Maybe he’s not really camping and being bitten to death by midges but sheltering in a friend’s house on some pleasant … Read more