News archive for 12th August 2020

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London schools could close when temperatures hit 30C as climate change fuels increase in extreme weather - Independent Students prepared to protest in England as ‘hectic’ results system changed at last minute - Independent School chiefs express alarm at plan to allow pupils to use their mock A-level results as final marks - Mail Williamson apologises to pupils ahead of A-level results day - Schools Week Exam chaos means thousands of A-level students face agonising wait for university place - Mirror Gavin Williamson apologises to pupils for school disruption as he insists exams system is 'robust and fair' - Evening Standard With five months to prepare, the A-level results fiasco is a scandal of the government’s own making - City AM Gavin Williamson vows school system will 'deliver' for young people after 'disruption' - Express Ministers braced for backlash as England's teachers despair at A-levels fiasco - Guardian Grade inflation would devalue A-level results of Covid generation, Education Secretary warns - Telegraph Exams 2020: Heads question mock exam ‘curveball’ - Schools Week Coronavirus cluster linked to Glasgow high school as thousands of students return to classrooms - Independent Gavin Williamson's apology to school pupils unlikely to be his last - Guardian Exam results: 'Mocks aren't a fair way to decide grades' - BBC Ministers accused of 'creating a monster' by allowing pupils to use mocks to appeal A-level grades - Telegraph New coronavirus cluster in Glasgow includes pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson says sorry to every student over Covid chaos ahead of A Level results day - The Sun 'Really disempowering': students reveal anxieties over A-level results - Guardian Exams 2020: Schools will face charges for unsuccessful appeals - Schools Week Scottish universities ask ministers for up to £25m a year to fund extra places - Guardian Schools to get autumn GCSE and A level exam resit cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson apologises for school and exam disruption - BBC A-Levels in Wales: Minister makes pledge on this year's grades - BBC Wales makes A-level grades pledge to students amid lowered grades controversy - Wales Online BTEC results day 2020: 'There is a shadow of doubt' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results day 2020: 6 problems with mock exam grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Police warn students not to ‘spoil’ A-level results day with illegal house parties - Independent A-level results: Will learners get the 'right' grades? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson apologises for Covid school 'disruption' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of guidance on mocks leaves schools 'in chaos' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A Level Results Day: How the new grading system really affects students - Evening Standard A-level results: 'Last-minute changes don't help us' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Q&A - Guardian The education debacle: Educational inequality magnified as most UK children absent from school for six months - New Statesman A level results – stay focused amid the confusion - GSA Gavin Williamson apologises for ‘disruption’ to summer exams as he defends ‘credible’ grade estimate system - PoliticsHome How teachers feel about being told they don’t know how to grade their own pupils - HuffPost Why A-level results day could be ‘incendiary’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools will abandon IGCSEs because of this grading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities and schools demand clarity for students over exam appeals - Mail Exam regulator ‘working urgently’ on A-Level appeal rules as Government accused of ‘panicked and chaotic response’ to results row - PoliticsHome 70% of UK universities expecting to be mostly online - PIE News Ministers accused of ‘trying to be sympathetic’ with ‘triple lock’ plan that lets students in England choose best grade - The Sun A-level results day: Students warned 'no hugging' and other social distancing rules - Mirror A-level results appeal system won't be ready until next week as Tories face fury - Mirror Sturgeon dismisses calls to sack education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mass closure and other Covid threats to private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to visit nurseries and childminders this autumn - Ofsted School staff to receive Covid-19 testing ‘on demand’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual to provide guidance on “valid mock grades” - FE Week GCSEs: Don't downgrade grade 4 passes, say colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: teachers to get Covid tests 'on demand' - Scotsman Disadvantaged pupils ‘worst affected’ by exam grading system despite mocks U-turn, unions warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New guide poses questions for universities to support disabled students during pandemic - Advance HE International Youth Day 2020: Youth work organisations giving young people a voice - CYPN | Children & Young People Now First generation university students need more guidance navigating education system - IOE London Blog A-level chaos: Students can’t just choose mock results - Evening Standard Hardworking pupils deserve better than this 'computer says no' approach to standardisation - PoliticsHome Education minister Nick Gibb gives himself 'A minus' grade for handling of exams as it's revealed 40% of A-Level results will be revised - Evening Standard Addressing the digital divide in education - EPI ‘First in family’ students are more likely to drop out of university - Nuffield Foundation Beginning a journey: Planning the ‘educational journey’ for new students - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Exams 2020: Ofqual to provide guidance on “valid mock grades” - Schools Week Triple lock for students ahead of A level and GCSE results - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges The Sutton Trust responds to the Government’s announcement on A-level grades - Sutton Trust Response to the Secretary of State's announcement of 12 August 2020 about 2020 GCSE, AS and A level results - Ofqual The DfE sets out new plans for the provision of laptops and tablets for certain pupils from autumn 2020 - NAHT ASCL comment on use of mock exam results in grading system - ASCL The great CAG car crash – what went wrong? - HEPI Voice welcomes the swift action of the Scottish Government to revise exams grades - Voice Decision on A-level and GCSE appeals a ‘rolling disaster’, say teachers - Guardian A-Levels in Wales: Changes considered to grading system - BBC A-level student: 'We were forgotten – simply dropped' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA results: 'Take the luck out of assessment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual: No mock A-level appeals details until next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson is a bystander in England’s exams row – but not for the reason you think - New Statesman Why we fear the reopening of schools will create a second wave of Covid-19 infections - New Statesman I know how crushing the A-level fiasco will be for disadvantaged pupils | Nadia Khomami - Guardian 40 per cent of A-level grades will be downgraded from predicted results, schools minister admits - Telegraph Voice comments on exam ‘triple lock’ - Voice Response to Government 'triple lock' on exam grades - Russell Group 'Unreliable' mocks are open to cheats, teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keir Starmer condemns last-minute A-level changes in England - Guardian School exams and Covid: what could the UK have learned from EU? - Guardian SQA chief fails to apologise for exams fiasco - Scotsman A-level results changes explained as students use mock exams in 'triple lock' - Mirror Kids at greater risk staying at home than going back to school, education minister warns - The Sun SQA: ‘We did what we were told on results moderation’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 100,000 A-level results could be downgraded. Students like these are most at risk - HuffPost Universities seek ‘urgent clarification’ on A-level ‘triple lock’ - Times Higher Education | THE ESFA Update: 12 August 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency It is time to reboot apprenticeships - FE News Students warn mock grades 'make mockery' of exams - BBC Exams 2020: 40% of A-level grades ‘adjusted’, minister reveals - Schools Week 40% of A-level pupils will have their predicted grades changed – but they can still pick mock result - The Sun A levels: 40% of teacher assessed grades changed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted visits can be deferred due to local lockdowns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories admit 40% of A-level results 'revised' tomorrow - and refuse to apologise - Mirror ‘We apologise to nobody’ – Gibb defends ‘eleventh-hour’ mocks change - Schools Week 'No confusion' over last minute A-level and GCSE changes, claims schools minister - HuffPost SQA results U-turn: 'I am dreading the next few weeks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We apologise to nobody' for mocks change, says Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb insists exam result move is 'fair and robust' after criticism over 'panicked' 11th hour changes - Evening Standard Exams 2020: Guide to appealing GCSE and A-level grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2020: GCSE timetables and key dates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams 2020: A-level timetables and key dates - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE 2020: Autumn exam timetable - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results day 2020: all dates and information - Times Educational Supplement | TES A level 2020: Autumn exam timetable - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results day 2020: All you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE sets out plans to allow disappointed exam students to use ‘valid mock grades’ - FE Week Exam results: What does the government’s ‘triple lock’ solution to school chaos actually mean? - Independent University applicants worried about impact of pandemic on grades and university life - Sutton Trust Swinney: 'Covid trauma changed my mind on SQA results' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK Government vows ‘triple lock’ for A-level results in bid to avoid repeat of Scottish exams fiasco - PoliticsHome Gavin Williamson has many questions to answer on his exam 'triple lock' - National Education Union UK Ministers move to prevent oncoming results storm - UKEdChat What does the guidance on schools reopening say? - Telegraph ‘It’s a buyer’s market’: universities brace for the biggest clearing day yet - Guardian A levels and GCSEs will need appeals for mocks to count - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Triple lock’ lets students in England choose best A-level or GCSE grade from 3 options to prevent Scottish-style fiasco - The Sun Students’ anxiety about the allocations of grades for cancelled high-stakes public examinations - BERA I’m an A-level teacher forced to grade my pupils. I’m dreading results day - HuffPost Triple lock for students ahead of A level and GCSE results - DfE Three months to make a difference? The Disabled Students’ Commission’s seven-point action plan - HEPI Exams and lockdown: how the pandemic threatens social mobility at university - Financial Times We need an Open Covid Pledge for education - Wonkhe Why has a gap suddenly become such a risky option? - Wonkhe Will we really punish students over Covid-19? - Wonkhe A-level students in England can use mock results amid exam criticism - Financial Times Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer must stop watching from the sidelines and help the Government get our kids back to school - The Sun Labour peer advising teaching unions how to avoid a return to the classroom without breaking the law - The Sun Coronavirus: Exam results day rituals put on hold - BBC Coronavirus: More pupils return to Scotland's schools - BBC First-in-family students ‘more likely to drop out’ of university - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils given second shot at success in A levels - Times Coronavirus: Children are safe, insists Boris Johnson as study points to school virus risk - Times Scotland: Exam grades boosted for thousands of pupils - Times Scotland: St Andrews sex scandal spreads to elite society - Times Anthony Seldon: Universities have a duty to help anxious school-leavers - Times Scotland: John Swinney surrenders and ditches moderated grades for estimates - Times Scotland: Relief and fear for first pupils to go back to school - Times Scotland: Let’s just pretend that it never happened | Alex Massie - Times Scotland: Teachers defend their judgment on exam grades - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Students give thanks for restoration of their broken dreams - Times Scotland: How has the Higher pass rate changed? - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Third of public back return to class on part-time basis - Times Will Covid kill off the teaching-research employment model? - Times Higher Education | THE Starmer warns of ‘robbed generation’ as poll reveals grading fears - Times Higher Education | THE