News archive for 13th August 2020

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Pupils from less well-off backgrounds have been hit hardest hit by algorithm used to downgrade estimated marks - Mail Were this year’s A-level results fair? - Financial Times Teachers accused of submitting 'implausibly high' predicted grades as A-level results row grows - Telegraph A-level chaos with thousands fearing future as marks downgraded in government 'betrayal' - Mirror Equalities body warns it may step in after A-level downgrades in England - Guardian We cannot be anything other than bitterly disappointed by our A-level results - Telegraph Exam watchdog accused of creating A-level grading system that punishes poorer students - Telegraph Boris Johnson insists exam results are 'robust' and 'dependable' amid anger over A Level downgrading - Evening Standard Ministers under pressure to review A-level results - Financial Times Rise in top grades as students celebrate A level results - DfE Letter to heads of admissions, higher education - 7 August 2020 - Ofqual Guide to AS and A level results for England, 2020 - Ofqual 'Failed the Scottish people!' Labour's Leonard furiously attacks Swinney for exam fiasco - Express The Guardian view on A-levels: ministers, not pupils, have failed | Editorial - Guardian University league tables: a guide to the best UK institutions in 2020 - Telegraph Top universities accused of inflexibility over A-level downgrades - Guardian 'I feel useless': A-level students in England tell of their disbelief after downgrades - Guardian Appeal fees must be scrapped for students caught up in A-Level chaos, says Labour - Mirror Swinney survives no confidence vote after exams fiasco, following 'pact' with Greens - Telegraph UK school-leavers have been sorely let down - Financial Times Scotland's education secretary John Swinney survives no-confidence vote - Guardian Cruel A-level results inequality exposed - Mirror Controversy as concerning A level figures suggest injustice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Growing backlash over A-level results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results day 2020: What has it been like for colleges? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How entire classes of A-level pupils had their results downgraded - HuffPost Who won and who lost: when A-levels meet the algorithm - Guardian Headteacher sends angry apology to parents over A-level results and urges them to complain - Wales Online No-confidence motion defeated after Sturgeon backs Education Secretary - Mail Poorer pupils are worst hit by A-level results fiasco with 10% seeing marks downgraded - Mail A-level fiasco is yet more government failure | Philip Collins - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: John Swinney survives no-confidence vote over exams fiasco - Times Results day: BTEC students may be waiting for results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson challenged by angry head on live TV - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels: Anger over 'unfair' results this year - BBC Clearing the myths on student finance - Student Loans Company Boris Johnson defends ‘robust’ A-level exam results despite 40% being marked down - The Sun How T Levels will be funded in academic year 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency A-level pupils to be told what grades teachers thought they deserved - Metro Students from disadvantaged backgrounds more likely than ever to be accepted into university on results day - UCAS A-Level results 2020: How have grades been calculated? - FFT Education Datalab For parents and teachers, sending children back to school will be a leap of faith | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian CBI responds to Btec results day - CBI CBI responds to A-Level results day - CBI CBI NI responds to A-Level results day - CBI A-Level results 2020: The main trends in grades and entries - FFT Education Datalab A-Level results 2020: Why independent schools have done well out of this year’s awarding process - FFT Education Datalab Analysis: A level results 2020 - EPI Disadvantaged pupils worst hit by A-level downgrades, figures show - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Libraries ‘will cancel journal subscriptions’ unless prices drop - Times Higher Education | THE NUS and UCU joint statement of solidarity with students after results fiasco - UCU A-levels: Minister must stop making it up on the hoof and put students first - UCU 2020 AS and A level results: a summary of the data - NAHT NASUWT comments on A-level results - NASUWT Unfair to expect schools to respond effectively to guidance with a week's notice - NASUWT ASCL comment on A level results - ASCL ASCL Cymru comment on AS and A-level results in Wales - ASCL Record numbers of 18-year-olds and applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds accepted into university - Universities UK ISC statement on Year 13 results 2020 - Independent Schools Council | ISC SFCA survey suggests process for calculating this year's A level grades is "flawed and unreliable" - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Results Day 2020 - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA A-Level Results - National Education Union A level grades in Wales - National Education Union A message from our Chair Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli: Congratulations to A-level students - Russell Group A Levels 2020 - Voice BERA funds £12,000 of school based research - BERA A level results: A fiasco destined to be repeated? - Schools Week A-level students in Wales marked down four grades by examiners - the full stats - Wales Online Rise in grades hides widespread downgrading - Schools NorthEast A level results day 2020: Full results and university entry data - Wonkhe A teachable moment for Initial Teacher Education? - HEPI The Covid-19 cohort and the ‘mess’ of public exams: reconsidering roles and responsibilities - IOE London Blog Pick ‘n Mix approach to results is causing Allsorts of anxiety for students and damage of trust - IOE London Blog AoC calls for urgent review into A Level standardisation process as many colleges have over half their grades downgraded - AoC | Association of Colleges Student support on results day - Sutton Trust Results day in a crisis - Sutton Trust Labour hit out at A-level 'fiasco' after almost 40% of results downgraded - PoliticsHome SQA results: John Swinney survives no-confidence vote - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results: Colleges report more than half of grades being marked down - Telegraph 'I put my heart and soul into them': A-level students on downgraded results (video report) - Guardian A-level results: 35% of students downgraded by one grade – latest figures show - Express Desperate scramble for university places as A-level kids appeal grades after 40% marked down - The Sun A level results: Predictable problems leave students and Ofqual under pressure - Schools Week This A level results mess could have been avoided - Schools Week SQA results: The 'exams debacle' without exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keep teacher’s A-level grades - they knew best - Times Educational Supplement | TES Geoff Barton: I have never seen such a car-crash set of results - Times Educational Supplement | TES The chaos generated by this year’s exam results lies squarely at the door of Gavin Williamson - FE Week Chaotic race for university places amid mass confusion over appeals process - Mail Ofqual insists 'no evidence of systemic bias' as NUS president calls A Level marking system 'racist and classist' - Evening Standard England A-level downgrades hit pupils from disadvantaged areas hardest - Guardian A-level results day 2020: Students’ fury as 40% of grades marked down – but most A and A*s awarded in a decade - The Sun Tories delete tweet criticising Scottish exam chaos after English exam chaos - HuffPost A-level results 2020: B grades most likely to be downgraded - Schools Week A level results: Colleges call for technical review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly 40% of A-level results in England downgraded - Financial Times Lowered GCSE grades in Wales may be reviewed, says Education Minister Kirsty Williams - Wales Online A-level and GCSE results 2020: how will grades be calculated without exams? - Telegraph Disappointed students accuse exam boards of ‘playing around with their futures’ - Metro 'I feel cheated': Rotherham students struggle to make sense of exam grades - Guardian Top A-level grades soar at private schools as sixth form colleges lose out - New Statesman A-level results: confusion is the result of months of inertia and years of policy - The Conversation Universities will cancel deals with publishers if they don’t respond to current financial pressures - warn major sector bodies - Jisc Education leaders call for urgent review into 'flawed' A Level results after some colleges see more than 50% of grades lowered - Evening Standard A Level appeals chaos as anger mounts over 280,000 downgraded results - Evening Standard UCAS ‘late clearing process’ for A-level students who didn’t get grades as appeals system ‘not ready’ - The Sun A-level results 2020: Private schools see biggest boost in top grades - Schools Week Appeals are key to ensuring no student is disadvantaged by statistical moderation - Schools Week Colleges demand urgent review into “biased” A-level grading process - FE Week A-level results 2020: Subject tables - Schools Week Downgraded A-level students urged to join possible legal action - Guardian Scottish primary shut after coronavirus case - Times Educational Supplement | TES BTEC results: Future key workers can take next steps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why politicians’ mistake was seeking a perfect solution - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2020: 'No bias' in grading, Ofqual says - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results: broader picture disguises the backpedalling and angst - Times A-level results: Record number of poorer pupils bound for university - Times University clearing 2020: universities promise to be flexible on grades for admissions - Guardian Pupils will find out the results teachers thought they deserved when schools send out staff-assessed marks - Mail Top results for vocational qualifications see “small increase,” reports Ofqual - FE Week University league tables 2020 - full rankings and courses - Guardian Furious headteacher slams government for 'throwing fair A-Level grading back in everyone's faces' - Mirror Will universities keep places open for A level appeals? - Metro How the SQA defended the results fiasco - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results day: Students on VTQs 'not disadvantaged' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels: Private schools get far larger A/A* rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Aberdeenshire primary school forced to close after staff member tests positive for Covid-19 - Scotsman Universities brace for the biggest ever clearing day - Guardian A level results 2020: Poorer pupils see greater drop in calculated grades - Schools Week Almost 40% of students in England have A-level results downgraded - Guardian Nearly two in five A Level students in England have exams results downgraded - Evening Standard Exam results: Can I appeal my A-level results? And other questions - BBC Gavin Williamson's swipe as Tory refuses to apologise for lowering 39% of A-levels - Mirror UK university clearing set to be the busiest ever, experts warn - Guardian Serious doubt over independence of SQA exams system - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2020: Teachers praised for grading accuracy - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2020: Science entries in decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pearson leads search for young World Changers - Pearson A-level results 2020: Top grades up by 2.4 percentage points - FE Week How have my exam results been decided this year? - BBC Top A* grades at A-level up in Wales - even before teenagers get revised grades - Wales Online A levels 2020: Maths and English show signs of recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2020: Grades 'utterly unfair and unfathomable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2020: Languages see big leap in top grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels 2020: Record 9% entries get top A* grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES This year’s disastrous A-level results are just the beginning of catastrophe - HuffPost A-level results 2020: ‘Enough is enough’ says heads’ union as it demands government review - Schools Week A-level results 2020: Top grades up by 2.4 percentage points, but 39.1 of grades downgraded - Schools Week A-level results 2020: 8 key trends in England’s data - Schools Week A-level pupils in Wales find out 'cancelled summer' results - BBC A levels 2020: 39% of teachers' grades moderated down - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels: Over a third of NI grades lower than predicted by teachers - BBC Clearing 2020: How to get a university course place on A-level results day - Independent Vast majority of A-level changes reduced teacher grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES A level results: Grades lower in 9 out of 10 SFCs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: We spent 'considerable time' on mocks plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES 97% of A-level students to get 'within one grade' of what teachers predicted - Mirror Number of students going to UK universities rises by 2.9% - Metro Key workers of tomorrow are taking their first steps today - FE Week Sixth form colleges cry foul over standardisation as principals report problems with A-level results - FE Week The government must address ‘inexplicable variations’ in sixth form colleges’ A-level results - Schools Week Sixth form colleges cry foul over standardisation as principals report problems with A-level results - Schools Week BTEC results day: 250,000 students to get results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student housing: should I stay at home or live in the 'social bubble'? - Guardian The government must address ‘inexplicable variations’ in sixth form colleges’ A-level results - FE Week Mock, shock and appeal: your A-level crisis kit - Guardian Results day in a crisis - Sutton Trust Year 12, and the perils of applying to university during a pandemic - Wonkhe Lack of childcare takes a mental toll on working parents - Financial Times Coronavirus: A-level results arrive after year with no exams - BBC Education Secretary Gavin Williamson makes humiliating apology to all 250,000 A-level students ahead of today's results - Mail Only one healthy child has been killed by Covid-19 in Britain, reveals study - Mail Are universities spending enough on cybersecurity? - Times Higher Education | THE Average overseas fee for UK master’s rises by almost £1K - Times Higher Education | THE A-levels: How will grades be decided? - Financial Times Teens face A-level crisis after exam bosses admit they don’t have plan for appeals process - The Sun BTec students are 'hopeful for the future' - BBC School leavers given new hope after A-level chaos - Times A ‘triple lock’ on A-level results may sound sturdy but it has only added to the chaos - Times A-level results: Pupils warned to be patient as clearing staff work from home - Times A-level results: Teachers will tell children what they really think - Times A-level results: Universities promise extra help for poorer students - Times Adjusted A-level results put Scots ahead in search for university places - Times Lord Hendy advised unions on safety laws - Times Children far less likely to transmit coronavirus, study finds - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Bannerman High School linked to latest cluster - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Moderation was fair for results, says exam chief - Times Scotland: SNP must abandon its ‘we know best’ attitude to schools - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: We can avoid Scotland’s exam crisis, says minister - Times UCET Covid 19 risk assessment advice - UCET