News archive for 19th August 2020

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BTec results pulled at last minute as UK exam chaos continues - Financial Times Gavin Williamson and Ofqual warned of flaws in A-level results system weeks ago, reports say - Independent Students face fresh chaos as BTEC grades pulled in last minute U-turn - Evening Standard BTec grades pulled on eve of results day - BBC Universities demand government bailout following chaos of exam grading U-turn - Mirror Controversial A-level exam results algorithm was unlawful, says Labour - Evening Standard Teachers braced for GCSE backlash over 'too harsh' predicted grades - Telegraph BTec exam board joins grades U-turn to use teacher assessment - Guardian More education turmoil as grades for BTec students delayed - Metro BTEC grades pulled at last minute in latest exams u-turn - HuffPost Ofqual ignored exams warning a month ago amid ministers' pressure - Guardian Extra UK medical school places to be funded from state coffers - Financial Times GCSE results 2020 - how did we get here? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Statement on grading vocational and technical qualifications this summer - Ofqual MSC warns rise in A-level grades will lead to poor medical students and fears they will drop out - Telegraph A-levels U-turn: Gavin Williamson offers full support to Ofqual - Mail Durham University offers bursaries to students who defer entry - Mail Disadvantaged pupils will be biggest winners from GCSE results - Guardian Durham University students offered money to defer after exams U-turn - BBC Hundreds of thousands of students will not get results on Thursday as fallout from exam fiasco continues - Independent A-levels: Algorithm at centre of grading crisis 'unlawful' says Labour - BBC Kingspark school: Dundee school closes after multiple cases of Covid-19 confirmed - Herald Scotland NEU demands reduced content for A-levels and GCSEs in 2021 as students find tests 'too stressful' - Mail GCSE results day: Teachers share their hopes and fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results: Around 15,000 students now make first-choice university offer with teacher grades - Independent Pearson announces eleventh-hour grading U-turn on BTECs – telling colleges not to issue results tomorrow - FE Week Student Loans Company ready to handle changes in circumstances and late applications - Student Loans Company Universities need £3 billion: IFS warns of soaring costs of giving cash to top institutions - Mail Gavin Williamson admits Ofqual drove A-levels u-turn – after taking credit himself - HuffPost GCSE results and A-level grading U-turn 2020: LIVE - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA to respond to all appeals by end of September - Times Educational Supplement | TES How are GCSEs being graded in 2020? This year’s results explained - Times A levels: government’s U-turn has left universities in the lurch - The Conversation Statement from Cindy Rampersaud on regrading of BTEC qualifications - Pearson Update on BTEC grading - Pearson Villiers Park at the forefront of the fight for fair exam results - Villiers Park Educational Trust A Levels: Students' questions answered - Villiers Park Educational Trust Pearson announces eleventh-hour grading U-turn on BTECs – telling schools not to issue results tomorrow - Schools Week BTECs: Pearson pledges to review all calculated grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual exam results algorithm was unlawful, says Labour - Guardian The emerging blind spot of computer science provision in secondary schools? - BERA IFS report on the effect of A-level results on universities - Russell Group UCAS receives upgraded centre assessed grades and provides analysis on number of upgraded students able to meet conditions of original first choice - UCAS Why the 2020 A-level grades system was 'a clear fail' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Here’s how Scotland’s universities ranked in the latest official world list - Scotsman Year 10 mustn't pay the price for Year 11's good grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shouldn't we be asking whether Mickey Mouse degrees are worth the money? - Mail Durham University becomes first to offer students incentives to defer their place for a year - Telegraph Government has 'full confidence' in Ofqual after exams row, says DfE - Telegraph How baseline assessments can support you when schools return - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Results 2020: Students won’t find out their algorithm grades - Schools Week Coronavirus: Mental health support developed for primary school children - Nursery World Coronavirus: Long road to recovery for childcare settings, finds survey - Nursery World Sheffield University halts plans to cut pay and cancel promotions - Guardian The schools scandal - New Statesman Government scraps all algorithmic grades for A-levels and GCSEs - Public Technology Concerns over ‘huge decline’ in young people’s mental health during lockdown - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Department for Education gives full backing to Ofqual over grade fiasco after Gavin Williamson refused to - PoliticsHome The complicated business of keeping books clean of COVID-19 - Jisc The government’s A Level failure leaves universities in the lurch - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Times Higher Education moves into international student services - PIE News Reflections on exam results 2020: an avoidable crisis? - EPI GCSE results 2020: What will this year’s results show? - FFT Education Datalab Can enrichment math clubs improve mathematics skills for kindergarten students? - Best Evidence in Brief The benefits to students of helping others - Best Evidence in Brief The cost-benefit case for tutoring - Best Evidence in Brief The endangered psychological well-being of students due to COVID-19 - Best Evidence in Brief Steve Rotheram slams 'incomprehensible' BTec results delay - BBC Handwriting – what’s the point? - UKEdChat Tackling the attainment gap in GCSE English and maths - Teach First ESFA Update: 19 August 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ASCL comment ahead of GCSE results day - ASCL Pensions: our three key areas of focus - NAHT Letter to Secretary of State requesting an urgent independent review in award grading process - ASCL Bigger changes needed for 2021 - National Education Union Entire class of Glasgow schoolkids forced to self-isolate after positive Covid-19 test - Scotsman 'Proportionate action' to be taken if in-school Covid-19 transmission discovered - Scotsman How will the A-level U-turn affect UK university admissions? - Guardian Fears teachers could be blamed for giving accurate GCSE results when they are released tomorrow - Mail Universities could face legal action from A-level students - Mail GCSE results: Students could face ‘scramble’ for places as better results expected than usual - Independent GCSE results day: Everything you need to know from how grades worked out to appeals - Mirror GCSE kids ‘need huge Nightingale hospital-style drive to boost 6th form places’ or they’ll miss out, Gov warned - The Sun The truth about A-levels, and how newspapers have survived the pandemic - New Statesman Learning from exam results crisis: the way students’ work is assessed needs to change - The Conversation School attendance 95% on day before pupils' full return - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 reasons why grading U-turn was an 'avoidable crisis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson ‘offered to quit’ over exams chaos but Boris Johnson refused - The Sun Durham University offers students money to defer entry - Guardian GCSEs 2020: Relief as final grades arrive on time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we're providing face visors for all college staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney: No need for mandatory face coverings in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson's department declares full support for Ofqual... a day after he failed to back chief over A Levels fiasco - Evening Standard Matt Hancock refuses to guarantee aspiring medical students places at university - Mirror How the exams fiasco revealed a cold truth about life after coronavirus - New Statesman Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Another exams U-turn: DfE now says it has ‘full confidence’ in Ofqual after Williamson refusal - FE Week Exam grades U-turn: Ofqual has DfE's 'full confidence' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2020: Please don't allow CAG appeals, say schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Another exams U-turn: DfE now says it has ‘full confidence’ in Ofqual after Williamson refusal - Schools Week 'Laughing stock': what the papers say about Gavin Williamson - Guardian 500 students still awaiting BTEC results - FE Week BTEC results are usually a reason for celebration, not this year - FE Week Why 'Ditch the algorithm' is the future of political protest | Louise Amoore - Guardian The DfE has published its first board minutes in over 2 years – here’s what we learnt - FE Week Chief Exec of Association of Colleges admits there's a 'snobbery' around BTec qualifications - Mail Children's commissioner: 'SQA results failed students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top London sixth form will accept pupils on 'first-come first-serve' basis because of high GCSE pass rate - Evening Standard Gavin Williamson 'offered his resignation' as Tory MPs brand him a 'dead man walking' - Mirror The DfE has published its first board minutes in over 2 years – here’s what we learnt - Schools Week Universities demand significant financial support as GPs call for increase in undergraduate medicine places - Evening Standard Sacking Gavin Williamson over A-levels row would ‘distract’ from coronavirus school reopening plan, says Matt Hancock - PoliticsHome The ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees and universities that could reduce your earning potential - Telegraph DfE assumed schools had 282 devices each before deciding free laptop allocations - Schools Week Education Secretary Gavin Williamson tries to shift blame to ‘not fit for purpose’ Ofqual after exam grades U-turn - The Sun It’s not just A-levels – algorithms have a nightmarish new power over our lives - Guardian Disadvantaged pupils are facing a perfect storm as they await their GCSE results — and it’s about more than coronavirus - PoliticsHome Universities ask Gavin Williamson for ‘significant financial support’ after A-levels U-turn - PoliticsHome Gavin Williamson urged not to blame officials for exams debacle amid reports his top civil servant could be sacked - PoliticsHome Calls to lift cap on number of medical students in UK - Mail Universities demand Government money to cope with U-turn chaos - Mail Gavin Williamson’s last stand: Education Secretary is ‘very sorry’ but won't quit - Express Colleges to receive £200 million to transform their buildings - DfE Capital allocations for FE colleges and designated institutions - Education & Skills Funding Agency How British universities offer worse value for money than other countries - Telegraph A-levels U-turn: Government considering lifting cap on medicine places - BBC The next university pensions row - HEPI People want to hear from to experts - Wonkhe 2020 shows us that high-stakes exams have a lot to answer for - Wonkhe Podcast: The A-levels fiasco - Guardian 180 colleges to get funding for buildings - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Almost no progress' on closing GCSE gap since 2017 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why on earth are Ofqual's CEO and chairman still in a job today? - Mail The A-levels fiasco has left these medical students without a university place - HuffPost Top civil servant at Department for Education 'is facing axe' over series of school disasters - Mail More than 180 colleges to share £200 million of capital funding, government reveals - FE Week Poor kids twice as likely to fail English and maths GCSE compared to rich pupils, experts warn - The Sun A levels: students face wait until 2021 for highly subscribed courses - Times Higher Education | THE For real pandemic productivity, try stepping off the treadmill - Times Higher Education | THE Students in limbo after A-level row - Times Students are no longer picky about former polys - Times Exam results: GCSE grades to rise in all subjects - Times Exam results: Ofqual head Roger Taylor ordered study of bias by algorithm - Times Ofqual pauses study into whether AI could be used to mark exams - Times Exam results: Tory MP Huw Merriman calls for rebate on student loans - Times Exam results: Don’t use officials to deflect blame, Gavin Williamson is told - Times Btecs take teacher assessments too - Times A-level grading: legal threat to universities wrestling with extra offers - Times Gavin Williamson: ‘hidden message’ of the whip on his desk - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: No sign of pupils spreading infection, says Nicola Sturgeon - Times Can Germany’s renowned vocational education system be exported? 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