Secondary
Thursday
GCSEs 2021: How Ofqual will police schools’ grading
Exam boards could ask for more evidence of students’ work where they have ‘serious concerns’ about a school’s grading
Concerns over ‘potential bias’ in Scottish Pisa results
Academic calls for more analysis of Scottish Pisa data after finding rise in lower achievers withdrawn from tests
Low achievers ‘excluded’ from England’s Pisa data
‘Serious flaws’ in England’s data undermines claims influential global ranking is ‘truly representative’, warns expert
Wednesday
GCSEs 2021: Schools have no ‘discretion’ over appeals
Students have an automatic right to appeal to exam boards, according to new Ofqual guidance
A levels: Ucas backs move to post-qualification offers
But pushing start of university year back to January would be ‘step too far’, says Ucas director of strategy
Tuesday
A-level exams could be sat earlier, says biggest board
AQA exam board backing post-qualification university admissions in new model with ‘small’ changes to timings it says will benefit students
Football star to miss matches because of school ‘exams’
Manager says 16-year-old will be doing exams – despite SQA insistence that there should be no exams
Friday
A levels ‘should be replaced with baccalaureate system’
In response to a new report, heads’ leader says the ‘narrowness and snobbery’ of curriculum needs to be addressed
GCSEs: Generous grades ‘logical and justifiable’
But generosity of teacher-assessed 2020 A-level and GCSE grading should not be carried forward, warns exam board
Tuesday
SQA: ‘No requirement to replicate full formal exams’
SQA insists that there should not be ‘one-off, high-stakes’ assessments this year after exams were cancelled
Banned: Teacher who changed students’ coursework
Teacher who admitted altering his students’ coursework before submitting it to exam board is banned from profession
