Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s Great Escape was believed to have ended today after he fled his tent to leave the midge-infested Scottish peninsula where he holidayed through his government’s exam debacle. The PM is understood to have left the designer bell tent he had been staying in with Carrie Symonds, their dog Dilyn and new … Read more
Gavin Williamson is ‘on his last life’ after his humiliating exams fiasco and will be sacked if Boris Johnson‘s schools reopening is botched, ministers claim. The Education Secretary has defied calls to resign from MPs across the board following his disastrously mishandled A-level grading debacle. Cabinet colleagues now believe that embattled Mr Williamson, who is … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… Government’s exams fiasco By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:07 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 02:07 BST, 19 August 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this article:
A student who ‘predicted’ the exams crisis in an award-winning piece of writing she penned last year says she now feels like she has ‘fallen into her own story’. Jessica Johnson, 18, from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, won an Orwell Youth Prize Senior award for her dystopian story A Band Apart in 2019. It was inspired … Read more
Jeremy Clarkson has used his annual A-level Results Day tweet to poke fun at results chaos. The former Top Gear presenter, 60, wrote: ‘A level results not great? Don’t worry, I got a C and 2 Us and I’m currently building a large house with far reaching views of the Cotswolds.’ He added: ‘And I … Read more
Students were given a ‘triple lock’ on their A-level and GCSE grades last night as ministers ripped up the system in the wake of the Scottish exams fiasco. Just 36 hours before A-level results are released, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said students could now opt for the grades they got in their mock exams. It means … Read more
The Scottish Government completed a total U-turn over exam results today, confirming that the downgraded marks of tens of thousands of students will revert to grades estimated by their teachers. Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP administration bowed to pressure to alter course over a ‘standardisation’ system designed to tackle the fact that no exams have been sat due … Read more
From bad to verse: Schools are given the OK to drop poetry from GCSE exams as syllabus is pared back in the wake of coronavirus shutdown Regulator Ofqual yesterday unveiled a slimmed-down English literature syllabus All students will be assessed on a Shakespeare play but can swerve poetry It comes after pressure from teachers grappling … Read more
An imaginary barrier cast with a toy wand is enough to stop children from cheating during exams, a new study shows. In experiments, psychologists demonstrated that a theoretical line was enough to prevent kids from sneaking a look at answers to a maths test on an adjacent table. Researchers tested hundreds of children in several … Read more
Secondary school pupils with GCSE and A-level exams next year are returning to classes today, but only a quarter of Years 10 and 12 are allowed on site at one time due to social-distancing. The Government wants pupils to have ‘face-to-face’ support before their exams next summer, but the amount contact time will vary considerably across … Read more