News archive for 23rd August 2018

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GCSE results 2018: Exam board apologises for unanswerable business question - Independent GCSE pass rates rise despite tougher exam assessment - Guardian Stefflon Don video: North London private school seeks legal advice over 'highly inappropriate' film - Evening Standard Nick Ferrari in stitches as education minister struggles to explain new GCSE grades - Express Five things we've learned from this year's GCSEs in Wales - Wales Online GCSE results: 'Make it a marathon, not a sprint' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: 'Why do we subject our children to these pointless tests?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE in firing line with former skills minister for ‘misrepresentation’ and 'discourtesy' - FE Week Boy told to try his best clinches 14 top GCSEs - Times Top private schools lead the charge in GCSE results - Times Students stage underground poster campaign against school exclusions - Schools Week GCSEs: Pupils in 'ad-hack' exclusions protest on Tube - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'End this addiction to high-stakes exams at 16' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Well done to students, but new GCSEs are narrowing the curriculum and adding to student stress, says NEU - National Education Union Government resits policy branded ‘a disgrace’ with less than a quarter of Maths re-takers passing. - AELP The rent challenge at the heart of the Augar review - Wonkhe Core maths qualifications: technical guidance - DfE GCSE results day in RCT 2018: How every school did - Wales Online GCSEs pave the way for future career success - GSA Independent Heads hit back at ‘easier’ iGCSE suggestions - GSA You're not hired - Collab Group Investigating classroom contexts for learning for pupils with special educational needs: Class size, groupings and interactions - BERA Home Office data on exit checks - Russell Group Schools have weathered the storm of GCSE upheaval - ASCL Changing educational landscape in Wales is necessary but creates great challenges for qualifications, says NAHT Cymru - NAHT GCSE success reflects hard work of pupils and teachers - NASUWT NASUWT comments on GCSE and Welsh Baccalaureate results in Wales - NASUWT NASUWT comments on GCSE results - NASUWT GCSEs increasingly irrelevant to digitised economy and future jobs - Edge Foundation Learning in Dungeons and Dragons - Learning Scientists Robot reading partners - UKEdChat GCSE results 2018: Taking the long view on entry rates - FFT Education Datalab GCSE results day 2018: The main trends in entries and grades - FFT Education Datalab GCSE results 2018: How many grade 9s were awarded in the newly reformed subjects? - FFT Education Datalab Classroom innovations - UKEdChat How, when, and why should primary schools introduce children to the world of work? - Education and Employers British Council comments on GCSE languages 2018 - British Council A broader curriculum will equip students with the necessary skills, and desire, to become tomorrow’s engineers, states IET - PoliticsHome 16 to 18 GCSE English and maths results - AoC | Association of Colleges College students celebrate GCSE success 2018 - AoC | Association of Colleges 15 incredibly relatable memes that all teachers will appreciate - Mirror UVAC position paper – Apprenticeship funding bands - UVAC UVAC position statement – Degree apprenticeship and ‘degree level apprenticeship’ - UVAC Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018 - DfE Institutes of Technology competition - DfE Employer guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Erasmus+ in the UK if there's no Brexit deal - DfE BBC presenters open their GCSE results - BBC Admissions appeals 2018: Secondary appeals rise but success rates drop - Schools Week What it’s like to study abroad in Italy: aperitivo helps you get over the nightmarish bureaucracy  - Telegraph What the person in charge of Wales' schools Kirsty Williams had to say about this year's GCSE results - Wales Online GCSE results 2018: Only 700 teenagers in England get clean sweep of grade 9s after major reforms - as it happened - Independent GCSE results – Teens celebrate across the UK after top grades INCREASE despite ‘tougher’ new exams - The Sun Why this 'School to Prison line' is popping up on GCSE results day across the London Underground - Mail GCSE pass rate goes UP - but fewer students get new top '9' grade compared to old A* mark - Evening Standard 'I'd go home, stress, cry, eat, cry': Manchester pupils on new GCSEs - Guardian This is how new GCSE number grades in England compare with A* to G grades in Wales - Wales Online GCSE results rise despite tougher exams - BBC The week in higher education – 23 August 2018 - Times Higher Education | THE HE should take over FE’s sub-degree courses, says Hepi report - Times Higher Education | THE Calls for more balanced curriculum to encourage more school leavers into STEM undergraduate courses - FE News GCSE resits: English and maths pass rates drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Language entries rise for first time since 2013 - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Science grades fall despite Ofqual action - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘GCSE results don’t define a pupil – or teacher’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Twitter 'magnifying' GCSE stress, say exam boards - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE grades not what you had hoped for? Help is at hand - BBC Skills test backlog 'could hit recruitment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Five key points - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edexcel admits impossible GCSE question - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Top grades up for first time in seven years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't overstate the narrowing GCSE gender gap - Guardian GCSE pass rate goes up despite being made tougher with new grade system - Metro Guide to GCSE results for England, 2018 - Ofqual GCSE results reveal north/south divide in England meaning you'll get better results if you live in the south - Mirror GCSE pupils gaining knowledge and skills for future success - DfE GCSE results 2018 - live: Number of students receiving top grades rises for first time in 7 years as boys close gap - Independent Employers back campaign to keep childcare voucher scheme open - Nursery World Are teachers’ pitiful salaries driving many to moonlight as Airbnb hosts? - Guardian Boys start to close gap on girls in reformed GCSEs - Times Full impact of Michael Gove’s GCSE exam reforms may not be seen for years - Times E-ACT primary school has SATs results cancelled for reading and maths - Schools Week GCSE resits: Results 'show need for change' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships 2018: Your options after GCSEs and how to apply for a course that pays you to study - Mirror GCSE Results 2018: Pupils turn away from design and technology and religious studies - Schools Week Gordon Ramsay's daughter gets top marks in GCSEs - but a 'D' in cookery from him - Telegraph #GCSEResultsDay2018 for England - Sector Response - FE News GCSE results 2018 – How did boys and girls do in English and maths? - Schools Week GCSE 2018 variability charts: Are your results normal? - Schools Week GCSE results day: A step-by-step guide on what to expect today - Telegraph Government's GCSE resits policy branded a disgrace after less than a quarter of 180,000 retakers pass maths - FE News GCSE maths resits: 2018 results - FE Week An infographic summarising 2018 GCSE results - Ofqual GCSE results day 2018: New ‘tougher’ exams favour boys as gender gap narrowest in seven years - Telegraph GCSE results day 2018: What are GCSE grade boundaries? Edexel, OCR, Eduqas, WJEC and more - Express Employer guide to apprenticeships - FE News Variability in GCSE results for schools, 2016 to 2018 - Ofqual Headteacher resigns after rapper Stefflon Don films explicit music video at London private schoof - HuffPost Two-year-old childcare offer 'fails to narrow attainment gap' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Wales' GCSE results day pass rate dips again in 2018 but top grades awarded are up - Wales Online GCSE results day 2018: LIVE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opportunity areas grant: S31 grant determination and letters - DfE Schools, pupil and their characteristics: 2002 to 2009 data - DfE Letter to awarding organisations: Pre-summer 2018 series - Ofqual GCSEs: boys close gap on girls after exams overhaul - Guardian How tough are GCSEs? Try our exam questions - Guardian Core maths qualifications: technical guidance for awarding organisations - Office for National Statistics (ONS) New GCSE grades explained: what is the 9 - 1 system and how does it affect students? - Telegraph Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), UK: August 2018 - Office for National Statistics (ONS) GCSE Results 2018: The 7 most interesting things we have learned - Schools Week GCSE results 2018: Grade 9 makes up over 4% of all results in England - Schools Week Summer 2018 data exchange procedure - Ofqual Admissions appeals in England: academic year 2017 to 2018 - DfE GCSE resits 2018: maths results are down but English is up - FE Week Undertaking from OCR to ensure compliance with Ofqual’s rules on marking GCSE and GCE qualifications - Ofqual Share of students earning top GCSE grades ticks up - Financial Times GCSE grade boundaries for Welsh exam board WJEC 2018 - and all the other boards - Wales Online Letter to awarding organisations: Setting and maintaining standards in summer 2018 - Ofqual Tiered 9 to 1 GCSEs in languages and sciences, 2018 - Ofqual GCSE results day: Pass rates up despite major reforms to make exams tougher - Independent GCSE pupils congratulated by Kirsty Williams - Welsh Government Monitoring GCSE, AS and A level exams: Summer 2018 - FE News Council payout over 'unfair' school admissions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warnings that pupils are paying price for GCSE reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adopted children lag behind peers at GCSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE Results Day - AoC statement - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSE results 2018 — Nervous pupils wait to find out tough new GCSE marks – as results are now awarded as numbered grades following exam shake up - The Sun 'No pressure, sir!': School head of year who sat GCSE maths in solidarity with students taking 'harder' new exams opens his results on live TV... and gets a grade 5 (equivalent of a C) - Mail New GCSE grades explained for parents - how the new scale and system works and why it changed - Mirror Filling in the biggest skills gap: Increasing learning at Levels 4 and 5 - HEPI Fixing our biggest skills gap: New report calls on universities to reverse the collapse in technical education - HEPI HEPI report on qualifications gap - Universities UK Businesses truly believe that education is more than qualifications alone - CBI Top tips for students on GCSE Results Day - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSE results 2018: Academic anxiety greater source of student stress than body image concerns, says former government adviser - Independent DfE 'should fund GCSEs and A levels for adults' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger over GCSE marking 'cover-up' as exam boards are told to set grade boundaries low to help students get top marks - Mail Share your reaction and experiences on GCSE results day 2018 - Guardian The summer scramble for students is tough on university staff | Elisa Haf - Guardian GCSE results 2018 - live: Thousands of teenagers in England to receive new numerical grades under tougher exams - Independent GCSE results are in, so what's next? - Mail The lowdown on the new GCSE grading system - Mail GCSE Results Day 2018 is today! What time are the results out and how do you get them? - The Sun GCSE grades explained – what is the 1-9 marking system and how does it work? - The Sun Revealed: the best value universities in Britain - Telegraph GCSE results: AQA confirms question error and social media leak on science exams - Schools Week Our world-beating new GCSEs are tough but fair to students - Telegraph GCSE results: why bright, poor students fail to achieve top grades - The Conversation GCSE Results day ‘GIRLS ON TOP’: is the Future Becoming Female? - FE News GCSE Results Day - AoC statement - AoC | Association of Colleges Funding delays risk squeeze on schools’ budgets - Financial Times Could you pass GCSE science? Try out these exam questions as pupils find out their results - Evening Standard GCSE Results - National Education Union New GCSE grading sends demoralising message, heads warn - Mail Top tips for coping with GCSE results day - BBC Getting a B in science beats an A in English as we need kids to study science, engineering and maths to cover 40,000-worker shortage - The Sun Universities UK response to HEPI report on qualifications gap - FE News From cake shop to civil servant - without A-levels - BBC GCSE results are chance for schools to recognise the important role of technology in education - FE News Well done to students, but new GCSEs are narrowing the curriculum and adding to student stress - FE News Can you answer these GCSE science questions correctly? - Independent Anger over GCSE marking 'cover-up' as exam boards are told to set grade boundaries low to help students get top marks - Mail Pupils await results of tougher GCSE exams - BBC GCSE results 2018: more pupils need top grades to take A levels at the best schools - Times Outlawing essay mills ‘will curb rampant cheating’ - Times Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: GCSEs are unfair on teenage brains - Times CBI reaction to GCSE results day - FE News Funded two-year-old places starting to close the gap, but higher take-up key - Nursery World Academic anxiety greater source of stress for students than body image concerns, former government adviser says - Independent Bristol student Natasha Abrahart told university she was suicidal - Times School sorry over explicit video by rapper Stefflon Don - Times A term-time holiday? Not even for you, Mr Gladstone - Times Scotland: Student puts a face to islanders wiped out 600 years ago - Times New GCSE grading system is damaging students' mental health, union warns - HuffPost