News archive for 11th August 2021

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Gavin Williamson braced for more inflated grades as record numbers set to get top GCSEs - The Sun GCSEs results day 2021: Hard to put exams 'genie' back - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-16 options: does the funding match the rhetoric? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning over growing inequality in schools as pupils set for bumper GCSE results - Mirror UK government urged to aid universities amid record student numbers - Financial Times University of Leeds students offered £10k and free housing to defer - BBC Russell Group universities defy order to return to lecture theatres as they offer no clearing places for first time after record A-level results - Mail Putting the voices and experiences of young people at the heart of our work - Careers & Enterprise Company University students asked to give up halls of residence or share rooms - Telegraph Will Gavin Williamson be ousted as Education Secretary? The two people tipped to take over - Express Education Secretary congratulates GCSE students on results day - DfE Government issues warning to parents against using 'ambulance-chasing' law firms to appeal A-level grades - Mail Has Covid sparked a private school revival? - Telegraph Kemi Badenoch: never far from controversy in nascent political career - Guardian Trust threatens High Court action after second termination notice - Schools Week Gavin Williamson should be sacked over exam failures, says Keir Starmer - Guardian We must bridge disgraceful gap in children's education revealed in A-level results - Mirror Use 2020 as baseline for future exam results, argues former DfE adviser - Guardian Northern College to remain standalone and pursue growth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results 2021: If you want options, they need funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tony Blair's university pledge has failed, says his son - Telegraph This year’s A-level results will only exacerbate existing inequality - Guardian Children who are the youngest in their class are more likely to get lower grades and suffer depression and drug addiction in adulthood - Mail Schools are not 'hubs of infection': Covid rates in classrooms were 3.5 times higher last autumn than they were this June - Mail UK HE sector positive about quarantine hotel capacity - PIE News Five new programmes to tackle youth violence in 2021 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education secretary asks watchdog to exert ‘pressure’ on universities to return to in-person teaching - Public Technology CATE and NTF awards for Newcastle University - Advance HE Widening attainment gap shows we need an education system that is fair to pupils from all backgrounds - PoliticsHome Podcast: Transitions, retention and progression - Advance HE Youngest class members face low educational achievement - UKEdChat GCSE Results Day 2021 - sector response - FE News A-level results 2021: Ofqual’s equalities analysis - FFT Education Datalab EdTech mentoring and coaching development grants available - Education & Training Foundation | ETF GCSE results day in Wales will deliver fair and accurate grades - ASCL GCSE results day will deliver fair and accurate grades - ASCL Covid tests: Schools and exams in 2022 and beyond - Institute for Government Teacher training shake-up could boost 'upfront quality' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Scotland podcast: reflections on SQA results 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid: What will school be like in the new term? - BBC Ofqual reminds pupils they don’t need legal advice to appeal exam grades - Schools Week ESFA Update: 11 August 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency BERA statement on the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report - BERA Record number of school leavers in England snap up university places - Guardian Tory MP blames teachers' unions for A-level national disaster: 700,000 comprehensive pupils got no home lessons at all during pandemic - Mail SQA results 2021: Why were there so many A grades? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-levels and GCSEs 2021: No need for legal help on appeals - Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES What has life taught me about exams? It’s hard work, not grades, that really matter - Guardian Reform GCSEs permanently, education experts urge government - Evening Standard Next year’s exams could be statistically contentious if we don’t act now - FE Week Next year’s exams could be statistically contentious if we don’t act now - Schools Week A-levels: Warning over private and state school gap - BBC A-levels: Keir Starmer on attainment gap getting bigger - BBC Terrified 'Private Pike' minister Gavin Williamson 'is wetting himself' at rumours Boris will replace him as Education Secretary - Mail The proposed changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained - Telegraph ‘Permanently rebase’ exam grades to 2020 levels, says former DfE adviser - Schools Week Prime Minister urged to recognise the ‘sterling work’ of nannies during pandemic - Nursery World Kemi Badenoch tipped as next education secretary in reshuffle - Guardian Exams 2021: How will teacher assessed grades for GCSEs and A-levels work and how do I appeal my grades? - Evening Standard Scottish exams 2021: System for 2022 to be announced 'within days' - Scotsman Scotland: Announcement on 2022 exams ‘in next few days’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2022: Pegging grades to 2020 'fairest' option - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2021: When do results come out? - BBC Resit A-level year if you’re unhappy with grades ... don’t limp on - Evening Standard Our fear of algorithms has undermined this year’s A-level grades and failed students - New Statesman A levels: Numerical grades 'unrealistic' say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results day: Advice from students who went through it last year - BBC 'It's reverse snobbery!' Labour savaged over 'dangerous' private school levelling plot - Express A-level grades shake-up considered as pupils score record number of top marks - Mirror SQA exams could return with education secretary to make announcement 'within days' - Herald Scotland College reappoints sector veteran as interim principal - FE Week Covid-hit A-level pupils deserve record grades - Express Boris plot to remove Williamson as Education Secretary and replace him with 'rising star' - Express EEF publishes new findings from reach and engagement evaluation - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF How will 2021 GCSE results compare to previous years? - FFT Education Datalab UCU condemns plans by TES to drop further education coverage - UCU A-level grades could be replaced with numbers to end ‘free-for-all’ system - Metro Rome wasn’t built in a day - UKEdChat SQA accused of presiding over 'massive' grade inflation - Herald Scotland Supporting students in ‘The Jump’ from Year 13 to university - HEPI Congrats to hard-working pupils but grade inflation does no one any good - Express Scotland's growing education 'attainment gap' between rich and poor risks reinvigorating bogus class system - Scotsman Scottish exams 2021: Lowest proportion of Scotland's poorest students at university for five years - Scotsman Despite everything, universities have never been more popular - Wonkhe A-level grades could be scrapped to end 'free-for-all' on top marks - Mail Teens party across the country after bagging a record haul of top marks in their A Levels - Mail A Level grades could be scrapped and replaced with numbers to end ‘meaningless free for all’ after highest ever scores - The Sun A-level grades could be ditched amid fears the surge in top marks makes results ‘meaningless’ - Independent It's an outrage that this year's A-level grades have served to entrench the gulf between state and private schools - Mail UKRI open access policy: a revolution in scholarly communication? - Times Higher Education | THE London university ‘determined to reenergise’ Ruskin College - Times Higher Education | THE A-level students hit the town after results success and year of chaotic Covid studies - Mirror Call for urgent A-levels overhaul as grades soar - The Times Girls surpass boys in A-level maths for the first time - The Times Students offered £10,000 to switch medical schools - The Times Kemi Badenoch: rising Tory star poised to replace Gavin Williamson as education secretary - The Times Highers results: Universities reject star students as grades soar - The Times Exams likely to stay, Shirley-Anne Somerville hints as grades hit new high - The Times Magnus Linklater: Must do better - it is time to reform exams and regain trust - The Times