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Plans for shakeup of university admissions with students applying AFTER A-level results

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Students could apply to university AFTER their A-level results with the academic year starting in January under radical shakeup of admissions Move is being directed by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson Hoped change will boost social mobility by helping disadvantaged children In current system, students apply to university by January with predicted grades  Predicted grades are often inaccurate … Read more

GCSE and A-Level exams in 2021 could be DELAYED to give students more time to prepare

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GCSE and A-Level exams could be sat later in 2021 to give students more time to prepare after being housebound by coronavirus, Gavin Williamson said today.  The Education Secretary confirmed a consultation has been launched into whether the tests could be moved from May to July – traditionally during the school holidays. Students preparing for … Read more

Secondary schools pupils facing GCSE and A-level exams return today

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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

Universities told to lower A-level offers to help poorest students

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Universities are told to lower their A-level offers even further to help the country’s poorest students Suggestion was made by Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility He called for a review of teacher-assessed GCSE and A-level results this summer Professor is worried teachers will ‘unintentionally’ undersestimate poorer pupils Students who left their revision to … Read more

GCSE and A-Level pupils face being given WRONG grades

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GCSE and A-Level pupils face being given the wrong grades due to teachers manually inputting thousands of scores into AQA exam board’s online system that is ‘ripe for human error’. Concerns have been raised about its ‘grade entry portal’, in which marks have to be put in one-by-one. AQA’s method has left school staff horrified … Read more

Bank of England chief economist didn’t take maths A-level

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Bank of England chief economist reveals he didn’t take A-level maths and struggles with homeschooling his children in the subject because he’s ‘not a natural’ Andy Haldane, 52, revealed that he had to teach himself A-level maths skills The Bank of England’s chief economist urged people to refresh their maths To mark National Numeracy Day … Read more

Pupils who disagree with predicted A-level and GCSE grades may not be able to sit exams in autumn

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Students who disagree with their predicted A-Level and GCSE grades may not be able to sit exams in the autumn to try and amend them, it has been reported.      Due to the coronavirus lockdown, exams regulator Ofqual has instructed teachers to provide grades for students which reflect the results they would have been most likely … Read more

GCSE and A-Level pupils will not be able to appeal against exam grades this year under new proposals

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GCSE and A-Level pupils ‘will not be able to appeal against exam grades this year… and will be told to RE-SIT tests in the autumn if they are unhappy’ Exam regulator Ofqual propose to stop appeals against A-level and GCSE results Students will be graded by teachers after exams cancelled due to coronavirus Ofqual says … Read more

Students who want to appeal A-level grades could be forced to take a gap year

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Students who want to appeal against ‘carefully considered’ A-Level grades awarded to them by teachers amid the coronavirus pandemic could be forced to take a gap year before taking tests, the exam watchdog has warned.  Yesterday, teachers were told to submit ‘fair and carefully considered’ GCSE and A-Level grades for their pupils, in lieu of … Read more

Coronavirus outbreak could see schools forced to delay GCSE and A-Level exams

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Britain’s third coronavirus patient died from the disease last night as the UK reported its biggest daily jump in cases yet. The male patient, aged over 60, died at the specialist unit for infectious diseases in North Manchester General Hospital. Health chiefs said the man, who had recently returned from Italy, had ‘significant underlying health … Read more