News archive for 12th August 2021

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Pupils who studied for GCSEs through coronavirus need celebrating - Mirror GCSE results reveal further gaps in educational attainment - Guardian Covid to ‘rip’ through schools unless safety measures brought in immediately, ministers warned - Independent Why ‘societal norms’ are behind girls’ historic lead over boys in GCSE results - Independent Girls extend lead over boys in getting top GCSEs - Mail GCSEs 2021: The big divides becoming even wider - BBC GCSEs: Top grades show sharp increase on 2019 - BBC Are girls really brainier than boys? Science has a clear and clever answer - Telegraph Back to school: Secondary pupils urged to take Covid test ahead of new term - Herald Scotland ‘Teacher-assessed grades are a pretty fair system’: GCSE students react to exam results - Guardian LGBT organisations back school guidance around transgender pupils - Scotsman NEU comment on GCSE results - National Education Union Exams should change after the experience of the last two years, says Education Minister Jeremy Miles - Wales Online New Covid rules for schools explained – from bubbles to self isolation rules - Mirror A-level and GCSE results show pandemic has widened inequality - Guardian SMC response to GCSE and A level results 2021 - Social Mobility Commission Covid Scotland: Children from deprived areas twice as likely to have been off school for self-isolation - Scotsman Guide to GCSE results for England, 2021 - Ofqual Pupils celebrate GCSE results - DfE Guide to 2021 Level 1/2 & Level 2 qualification results for VTQs in England - Ofqual How can the HE sector achieve authentic change for disabled students? - Advance HE GCSE results day 2021 - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges The Sutton Trust comment on GCSE Results Day 2021 - Sutton Trust More than 230,000 Level 2 BTEC students receive their grades - Pearson Top GCSE grades have risen for a second year despite pandemic exam disruption - PoliticsHome GCSE inequality between state, selective and private schools is "baked in", Keir Starmer says - PoliticsHome Disabled students have their say on impact of Covid-19 and their experience of higher education - Advance HE GCSE attainment gap widens for disadvantaged pupils and students with SEND - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Results day sees adult learners step towards new careers - FE Week Year 11 results: 'We hope the grades young people receive today enable them to pursue their goals with confidence' - Independent Schools Council | ISC A-Levels 2021: A recap - HEPI Government response to consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace - NAHT Special needs pupil misses year of school due to council blunders, ombudsman finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ‘Good progress’ on research excellence framework panel diversity - Times Higher Education | THE GCSE Results Day 2021 - sector response - FE News British Council statement on modern foreign languages GCSE results - British Council Learning for the charity sector: The good, bad and not-so-ugly - Training Journal GCSE results 2021: The main trends in grades and entries - FFT Education Datalab Analysis: GCSE results 2021 - EPI International Youth Day: The Diana Award unveils Covid-19 recovery plan for young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Top resources for social care, youth work and education practitioners - CYPN | Children & Young People Now CBI responds to GCSE results day - CBI GCSEs – go girls! - GSA ASCL Cymru comment on GCSE results - ASCL ASCL Northern Ireland comment on GCSE results - ASCL ASCL comment on GCSE results - ASCL NASUWT comments on GCSE results for Northern Ireland - NASUWT NASUWT comments on GCSE results for England and Wales - NASUWT Pupils celebrate GCSE results after ‘really tough’ year in England - Financial Times Northern College steers clear of ‘perfect storm’ and will remain standalone - FE Week GCSE results 2021: Covid a 'wake-up call' on inequality - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grade gender gaps widen during pandemic - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Today has been such a shock’: GCSE students react to stellar results - Guardian Schools will trial using air purifiers and UV lights in a bid to make classrooms even safer in fight against Covid - Mail This is an opportunity for the UK to radically rethink school exams - Financial Times Pupils on free school meals less likely to get top GCSEs than privileged peers - Mirror Scottish government publishes transgender guidance for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Magazine podcast: Wellbeing, jungles, feel-good books - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Tories' exam chaos risks widening private and state school gap that will last lifetime' - Mirror GCSE results day 2021: A step-by-step guide on timings and what to expect - Telegraph How to appeal, commiserate and celebrate your child’s GCSE results - Telegraph In charts: GCSE grade inflation sees gender, region and class divides grow - Telegraph GCSE results 2021: Wales sees record year with leap in top grades - Wales Online Private school children get double proportion of top grade GCSEs - Mail Scottish Government issues school guidance to support transgender pupils - Herald Scotland Air purifiers and ultraviolet lights to be trialled in schools in bid to tackle Covid - Independent Btec results 2021: 230,000 receive level 2 grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2021: Record passes and top grades - BBC GCSE results surge to all-time high with almost a third awarded top grades by generous teachers - The Sun Children on free school meals fall further behind in GCSE results - Metro SNP savaged over ‘exam fiasco’ and told to apologise - ‘Arrogance failed young people’ - Express UK's largest nursery group Busy Bees to open 357th setting - Nursery World Minister slams 'unacceptable' gap between private and state school pupils with pandemic 'amplifying inequalities' - Mail GCSE results explained: How are the exams graded? - Independent GCSE results 2021: Will employers judge Covid grades badly? And other questions - BBC Teaching school hubs - DfE GCSEs: Rise in top grades in Northern Ireland as results issued - BBC Exams: Keir Starmer calls for Gavin Williamson to lose job - BBC Student Loans Interest Rates and Repayment Threshold Announcement - Student Loans Company GCSE results 2021: How were grades decided? - BBC GCSE results 2021: What should you do with the data? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2021: 'No long term teacher assessment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'A' grades rise in all but one subject at Higher - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2021: Poor pupils fall further behind as inequalities exposed - Schools Week Boris Johnson lines up new education secretary after A-level fallout - Express Tony Blair's own son turns on father as he ferociously tears apart ex-PM for failure - Express Results day 2021: After the best-ever GSCE grades, are exams gone forever? - Evening Standard GCSEs 2021: The 9-1 grading system explained - BBC IGCSEs 2021: Exam grades allowed to rise to match TAGs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities are offering serious cashback to students who defer entry - HuffPost Record grade inflation isn’t the only thing that’s different about this year’s exams - Guardian GCSE results hit record high as London students lead the way - Evening Standard Schools minister on GCSEs: "People can be confident of the grades awarded" - BBC Gavin Williamson facing sack over exam and education chaos in pandemic - Metro SNP let Scottish children down! Nicola Sturgeon skewered for ‘total lack of leadership’ - Express Tory admits Covid ramped up inequalities as gap between private and state pupils widens - Mirror GCSE results: pupils achieve record numbers of top grades in England - Guardian Number of top GCSE grades hits record high - Financial Times GCSE results day 2021: Private schools' top grade jump - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Results at a glance - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits 2021: More students achieve grade 4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2021: 8 interesting things we learned - Schools Week GCSE results 2021: Top grades rise most at private and free schools - Schools Week GCSE results 2021: Top grades rise to 30%, while disadvantaged gap widens - Schools Week GCSE results 2021: Which subject saw the biggest rise in top grades? - Schools Week GCSE grades at all time high as nearly a third get top marks - Metro GCSE results 2021: Pass rate increases for maths and English resits - FE Week GCSE results surge to all-time high after exams cancelled for second year in a row - Express The children who loved going to school in the summer holidays - Wales Online What does a university degree actually cost – and is it worth it? - Metro GCSE Results Day 2021: What are your options once you’ve got your grades? - Metro Students set for record GCSE results and tough battle for sixth form places - Metro Anxious teens count down the remaining minutes to opening their teacher-assessed GCSE results - Mail GCSEs: Exams 'definitely' have place in Wales' future - BBC Planet Normal: We need to have a conversation about grade inflation - Telegraph Pupils' use of mobile phones in the classroom is a challenge to discipline that headteachers must meet - Scotsman Do grade inflation and fair access mix? - Wonkhe GCSES 2021: Higher results expected after exams axed - BBC Ministers consider overhaul of exams marking as almost a third of entries are predicted to get top results today - Mail International Youth Day 2021: Bringing the younger generation back into the workplace - FE News Parents could join campaign to scrap GCSEs ‘if even more top grades awarded’ - Independent Octopus aims to grasp ‘publishing revolution science needs’ - Times Higher Education | THE Pupils set for record GCSE results — and a battle to enter sixth form - The Times GCSE results suggest girls are just cleverer, says expert - The Times A-level results: Universities ‘will have to fill gaps in schooling’ - The Times Chinese government ‘did not influence’ Mandarin teaching plan for Irish schools - The Times