News archive for 20th August 2020

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Cap on number of students on medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses will be lifted - Mail Taylor Swift donates £23,000 to help student go to university - Guardian Caps on medical degrees scrapped with all students getting first choice unis - Metro Subject-by-subject breakdown suggests private school children were biggest winners from GCSE grade inflation - Telegraph Edinburgh’s Napier University halts compulsory redundancies after union strike vote - Scotsman Ofqual chief to face MPs over exams fiasco and botched algorithm grading - Guardian Writing off the lucky Covid Generation of pupils would be a gross error - Telegraph The missed algorithm warnings that led to A-level results chaos - Telegraph England exams row timeline: was Ofqual warned of algorithm bias? - Guardian GCSE students on results day: 'The last few weeks were terrifying' - Guardian Schools consider appeals against GCSE grades that are too high - Guardian Coronavirus is now an excuse not to do anything difficult – but this lazy caution is damaging kids’ school lives - The Sun Harrow school is launching £15,000-a-year online sixth form - Mail GCSE results day: Are students happy with their CAGs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy chief wants probe into 'irrational' GCSE grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of all GCSE pupils get A/A* equivalent grades - Mail Cap on medicine and dentistry university courses scrapped - Times The private schools racket is falling apart | Max Hastings - Times CofE says focus must shift to getting schools open after chaos - Mail Exam algorithm to be reviewed by regulator - Public Technology GCSE results: Year 11 students celebrate record grades after algorithm U-turn... but farce continues for BTec students - Evening Standard Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross suggests Gavin Williamson should quit over exam results crisis - PoliticsHome Fresh exams ‘chaos’ as BTEC results pulled while pupils get revised GCSE grades - PoliticsHome GCSE results 2020 - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSE and A-Level results 2020: How grades have changed in every subject - FFT Education Datalab Closing the linguistic learning gap - Bell Foundation GCSE results day: 'A broad mistrust of results' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on GCSE results day - ASCL Teacher GCSE grades 'should stand even if lower' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on GCSE results in Wales - ASCL ASCL NI comment on GCSE results - ASCL Letter to Minister of Education requesting an urgent independent review in award grading process in Northern Ireland - ASCL A-level entrants who studied privately left without grades - Guardian UUK response to DfE announcement on action agreed to support students into their preferred universities - Universities UK Reopening schools and colleges: Updates and tips for making the return safer - ASCL UCU response to government announcement on action to support young people into universities - UCU UCU response to BTEC and GCSE results chaos - UCU Colleges ask for flexibility in COVID-19 catch-up funding to support ‘borderline’ students - FE Week Gibb 'did not see' algorithm until results day - Times Educational Supplement | TES SQA results: 'Urgent need for student-centred appeals' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2020 - National Education Union Coronavirus information (updated) - Voice Statement on BTec grades delay - Voice ISC statement on Year 11 results day 2020 - Independent Schools Council | ISC Response to DfE announcement on university entry - Russell Group GCSE results 2020 - Voice The sector must collaborate to escape the government’s triple lock of policy failure - Wonkhe 2020 admissions: sometimes dreams do come true - Wonkhe Is the coronavirus undermining the intellectual foundations of the university? - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils may have to wear face coverings in school in the 'near future', says Nicola Sturgeon - Scotsman Bite size research - Learning strategy intervention - Learning Scientists Pupils celebrate results that pave the way for future success - DfE Guide to GCSE results for England, 2020 - Ofqual Action agreed to support students into preferred universities - DfE UKCISA calls for government to work with international sector - PIE News Let's use this exams debacle to transform England's schools | Melissa Benn - Guardian Government laptop scheme: Only a third of eligible children benefit from free technology - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government lifts cap on medicine course places and other specialist subjects after A-level chaos - Evening Standard First secure school facing further delays due to charitable status wrangle - CYPN | Children & Young People Now English universities to honour admission offers 'where possible' - Guardian Btecs were delayed because they would have missed out on grade inflation, minister says - Telegraph Government agrees to fund extra medical places in England - Times Higher Education | THE A-level exam chaos: Ofqual’s controversial algorithm to be reviewed, regulatory body confirms - Independent UK's global education aura may be lost after exams mess - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Further action needed to keep people safe in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Languages and creative subjects see highest increases in top A-level grades - Schools Week Scottish Tory leader refuses to back Gavin Williamson over exams chaos - Guardian More than 10% of A level results are upgraded as ministers scrap cap on number of medical students - Mail GCSE Results Day 2020: Record pass rate seen after steep maths and English grades increase - Telegraph Joy, jubilation and parental hankies: On the front line of GCSE result celebrations - Independent ‘Hurtful’ to say teachers' grades too generous - Times Educational Supplement | TES Row over Ofqual PR contract with firm linked to Gove - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh Tory civil war after new Scots boss suggests Gavin Williamson should quit over exams fiasco - The Sun GCSE results – A quarter of pupils get top grades sparking desperate scramble for college places - The Sun Government must listen to teachers or face recurring chaos - Schools Week A-level pass rate rises to record high after switch to teacher-assessed grades - Mail Government lifts cap on specialist university places after exams blunder - Herald Scotland Schools minister Nick Gibb was warned about exam algorithm in July - BBC A-level students who get grades can go to first choice uni as ministers rip up caps on doctors & vets - The Sun ‘Too little too late’: Protesters to call for Gavin Williamson to resign, as tens of thousands await BTec results - Independent Results 2020: What you need to know about this year’s appeals and Autumn resits - FE Week Six questions Gavin Williamson still needs to answer about the exams fiasco - HuffPost GCSE results 2020: 8 interesting things we learned - Schools Week 'I’m just delighted': huge relief for GCSE students after results U-turn - Guardian GCSE and A-level results improve sharply after algorithm scrapped - Financial Times Students are promised places at first-choice university after A-level U-turn - Financial Times Wales' education minister says she intends exams to be held in 2021 - Wales Online GCSE and BTEC students paying the price, says UCU - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students to be offered first choice places, says minister - BBC GCSEs: 'Vital' that Williamson answers student concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES ONS: Fewer young people not in education or training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government agrees deal with universities after exam grading fiasco - HuffPost Boris Johnson praises GCSE students for helping to 'keep virus under control'... with no mention of grades debacle - Evening Standard Pupils get record GCSE grades as BTecs are pulled - BBC The inside story about how an algorithm created A-level chaos - Telegraph GCSE results day 2020: Grades soar for third year as quarter of pupils get top marks - Mirror Exams 2020: Guide to appealing GCSE and A-level grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student whose story predicted A-levels crisis has St Andrews offer reinstated - Guardian Health expert: Face masks could prevent school closures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results 2020: What you need to know about this year’s appeals and Autumn resits - Schools Week Universities agree to honour all first choice offers for pupils who hit grades after U-turn - Schools Week Universities agree to honour all first choice offers for pupils who hit grades after U-turn - FE Week GCSE 2020: 'Bizarre' rises from moderated grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools’ ‘severe' maths grades boosted by Ofqual test - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level pass rate surges to record high after U-turn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb: Ofqual's algorithm fair, good and 'very popular' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2020: Students have vocational options, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2020: What should you do with the results data? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister admits he was warned about concerns over exams algorithm - Guardian GCSE results: proportion of entries with highest grades soars - Guardian GCSE results 2020: Top grades increase, with nearly four in five pupils achieving a pass - FE Week What went wrong with exam algorithm? - BBC Decolonising the university: a new student's guide to campus activism - Guardian GCSE Results Day 2020: more than a quarter of exams awarded top grades - Telegraph GCSEs: Inside a school in one of England's lowest attainment areas - BBC The number of top A* and A GCSE results in Wales breaks all records - Wales Online GCSEs 2020: 3Rs top grades and pass rates soar - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resit results: Grade 4s up in English and maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2020: French and Spanish revival continues - Times Educational Supplement | TES No appeals allowed on CAG GCSE teacher assessed grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES BTec Nationals and Firsts: What went wrong with the grades? - BBC Top results at A-level almost double under new system - FE Week Grades boost for maths after NRT showed improved performance - Schools Week To give pupils the best chances in life, look at inequalities outside the school gates | Owen Jones - Guardian Top results at A-level almost double under new system  - Schools Week GCSE results day 2020: U-turn means record top grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Top marks surge to record high after government’s grading U-turn - Independent GCSE results 2020: Top grades soar, as nearly four in five pupils pass - Schools Week GCSE results: Schools minister admits he was warned algorithm might disadvantage poorer pupils - but claims it did not - Independent A National Baccalaureate for all. There is another way! - Teacherhead The future of universities: ‘I don’t think I am getting my money’s worth at the moment’ - Telegraph Gavin Williamson ‘was warned of A-level problems in July’ - PoliticsHome The A-Level results process has been painful, yet this is not the end of the crisis - PoliticsHome A-level results day: A student's perspective - Sutton Trust Gavin Williamson 'warned weeks ago' about unfair results but went ahead anyway - Metro Exam fiasco exposes absurd university obsession - Express How Humanities and Social Sciences can play a leading part in the COVID-19 recovery - HEPI BTEC board axes plans to announce grades with just 18 hours notice - Mail Half a million BTEC students told: You won’t get results on time - Telegraph This summer of U-turns has exposed the Tories’ lack of direction | Ellie Mae O'Hagan - Guardian GCSE results: 'Ofqual acted like Morecambe and Wise’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Firm linked to Gove and Cummings hired to work with Ofqual on A-levels - Guardian Exam crisis continues: Hancock pleads 'unprecedented circumstances' as anger grows - Express A truly decolonial curriculum means treating students as citizens - Wonkhe Just another brick in a wall - Wonkhe Pupils get GCSE grades as BTec results are pulled - BBC Government U-turn means 1.5million teenagers could get marks equivalent to the old-style A/A* - Mail Ofqual was told its algorithm was 'doomed' a month ago but 'ignored the warnings' - Mail Gavin Williamson is 'on his last life' after his exams fiasco - Mail GCSEs 2020: The 9-1 grading system explained - BBC How does GCSE results day work? - BBC These pupils are threatening to strike if next year's A-levels aren't made fairer - HuffPost BTEC results chaos as tens of thousands of students will not get their grades today - Mirror Smaller class sizes push more teaching into evenings and weekends - Times Higher Education | THE Gavin Williamson was warned about risk of exam fiasco - Times Exam results: Btec grades are withdrawn for changes on eve of results day - Times Why is there such a furore over A-levels and GCSEs this year? - Times Sally Collier: Ofqual chief and Norwich fan keeps mum over A-level failings - Times Exams panel included Tim Leunig, maverick who was close to Dominic Cummings - Times A-level results: Students offered cash to defer university places for a year - Times GCSE and A-level results: Schools ask for block on grade appeals - Times Our exam obsession is a blight on society | James Marriott - Times Scotland: Surge in students aiming to study medicine prompts drop-out fears - Times Scotland: Dundee school shut down after six adults give positive tests - Times Ireland: Home-schooled teenager wins court fight to get Leaving Cert grades - Times DfE: Caps for undergraduate ITT lifted for AY2020/21 - UCET