GCSEs and A-levels should be replaced with alternative assessments in the long term, teachers have said. School staff now have a ‘golden opportunity’ to stop ‘toxic testing’ amid growing calls to reform the national assessments, the National Education Union’s (NEU) virtual annual conference heard. A motion passed at the conference called for GCSEs and A-levels … Read more
Britain’s largest teaching union has demanded GCSEs are abolished amid fears of a ‘Wild West’ of rampant grade inflation this summer. The National Education Union said there is a growing movement to challenge the status quo among Tory MPs and other powerful groups. It asked whether there was any function for the tests when pupils … Read more
Now next year’s exams will be watered down: GCSEs and A-levels are likely to be easier in 2022 to help children after lessons were disrupted by Covid pandemic Ofqual boss Simon Lebus told MPs there need to be ‘adaptations’ to 2022 exams Mr Lebus said the process of recovering lost learning would take several years … Read more
Never let a good crisis go to waste. It was Winston Churchill who made that saying famous. He was speaking in 1940 when the future of the nation was at stake. Even Covid can’t compete with that. But what we do face today is a crisis in education and, no, it has not been created … Read more
What will replace GCSEs and A-levels and will the system be fair? As Government plans to hand teachers control over this year’s exam grades, we answer the important questions By Josh White Education Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 01:24 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 01:35 GMT, 25 February 2021 What’s going on? Since … Read more
School students taking their GCSE and A-levels could be asked to take ‘mini-exams’ to help determine their grades, according to reports. Exam boards could write the slimmed down papers, which students will take at the request of their teachers. The papers would be marked by teachers and would be used to help them to inform … Read more
Two new schools will challenge the practise of pupils sitting exams at age 16. Former Downing Street aide to Tony Blair, Peter Hyman, along with brothers Ben and Tobyn Thomas, who own Thomas’s Battersea where Prince George and Princess Charlotte are pupils, are backing a campaign to scrap GCSE exams. They will be opening secondary … Read more
Students and headteachers today demanded immediate clarity on whether GCSE and A-level exams will be axed this summer after Boris Johnson ‘bowed to the inevitable’ and shut all schools until February 22. The decision to close schools in England on the day many reopened after the festive break infuriated school leaders and unions who attacked the … Read more
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
Education union chiefs have today demanded an overhaul of next year’s GCSE and A-Level exams over fears coronavirus could cut school contact time and called for an emphasis shift away from end-of-year exams – because students find them ‘too stressful’. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, have written to … Read more