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Move means A level study can include Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker prize winning novel Girl, Woman, Other at A level from September

Is Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence achieving its aims? Emma Seith investigates

The disruption caused by Covid has reignited the debate about how Scotland should assess what secondary school students know at the end of their studies, with some favouring external exams and others arguing for greater teacher involvement and coursework. Emma Seith reports

The ASCL school leaders’ union also appeals for GCSE reform and warns that students sit too many exams in summer term

Running additional assessments would ‘place excess workload on teachers, lecturers and learners’, SQA says

What are the most common types of teacher bias? And how can we avoid it impacting judgements in assessments?

Funding changes and fewer qualifications behind the decline, say researchers

School leaders’ union sets out vision for overhauling assessment, inspections and admissions

A decision about how exam grading will be ‘pegged’ is yet to be made. Geoff Barton looks at the options

‘Robust’ data is required if schools in Scotland are to be judged on more than just exam results, says auditor general

Headteachers’ union says it will be ‘difficult to justify’ keeping distribution of grades from past two years if exams return

Exclusive: ‘Unsurprising’ that a huge rise in appeals has not emerged given top grades awarded in 2021, say solicitors