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When is A-level results day and what happens if your students don’t achieve the grades they wanted? We round up the key information below

Screen-based exams within the next five years are ‘possible’ – but only with national support, say teachers

Exclusive: 90% of teachers surveyed also said they are not satisfied with the current assessment arrangements, a new survey finds

Your roundup of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ most popular news and features articles from the past week includes all the reaction to the teacher pay rises, a big announcement about Sats and Ofsted’s concerns about schools being too focused on exams

Exclusive: New analysis also reveals the regions experiencing the biggest fall in those reaching the expected standard at key stage 2 Sats during the pandemic

Heads welcome clarification following the DfE’s decision not to produce key stage 2 performance tables this year

This week we revisit a ÌÇÐÄVlog Podagogy podcast from 2018, featuring Dr Louise Kay, to explore what we really mean when we say a child is or isn’t ‘school-ready’

Students from poorer backgrounds in Wales were almost two years behind their peers pre-pandemic, finds new analysis

The use of teacher-assessed grades has made students anxious about any form of testing – but we need them to be comfortable with low-stakes assessment, writes Louise Lewis

Exclusive: GCSE and A-level exam markers have described delays to their payments as ‘a shambles’

Ofqual says that ‘adaptations’ enabled exams to go ahead this year – but the regulator has faced criticism over how some changes were implemented

A closer look at the data suggests a brighter picture, says this primary leader