The future of exams is in question . . . but can the answers be found online?
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  • May 11, 2022
NAHT comments on Ofqual exam proposals
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Exam reforms GCSEs A-levels Online assessment Technology
  • May 6, 2022
Adaptations to exam arrangements 2022 teacher survey
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Exam reforms
  • May 5, 2022
No more three-hour finals for some Cambridge students
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Cambridge University Exam reforms
  • May 5, 2022
Pens down: England’s exams regulator exploring online A-levels and GCSEs
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  • May 4, 2022
ASCL comment on Ofqual plan for use of technology in exams
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  • May 4, 2022
New Ofqual 3-year plan puts students and apprentices at its heart
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Ofqual Exam reforms
  • May 4, 2022
Ofqual's 3 year plan for examinations
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  • May 4, 2022
Online testing which adapts to suit students' ability level could be rolled out in three years
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  • May 4, 2022
Watchdog looks to scrap handwritten exams at A-level and GCSE
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  • May 4, 2022
Ofqual to look at replacing pen and paper with computers in GCSE and A-level exams
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  • May 4, 2022
Ofqual to consider use of technology in exams
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  • May 4, 2022
Ofqual’s 3-year plan for exams: what you need to know
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Ofqual Exam reforms Technology
  • May 4, 2022
Ofqual’s 3-year plan for exams: need to know
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Ofqual Exam reforms Technology
  • May 4, 2022
Scottish exam changes to continue into 2023
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Apr 28, 2022
Covid exam changes to continue in Scotland next year
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Scotland Exam reforms Covid impact
  • Apr 28, 2022
SQA exam changes to stay in place for another school year
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SQA Scotland Exam reforms
  • Apr 28, 2022
Isle of Man schools lead exam board changes to 'benefit students'
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Isle of Man Exam reforms Exam board
  • Mar 25, 2022
Students should be given access to the internet in exams
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Exam reforms
  • Mar 24, 2022
Unfair & fragile: The growing case for exam reform
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Exam reforms
  • Mar 22, 2022
Seven policies from Pearson to make exams fit for the future
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Exam reforms
  • Mar 21, 2022
Exams: is there an alternative to ‘back to normal’?
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Exams Exam reforms
  • Mar 11, 2022
Exams must move on from 'unsafe sweaty sports halls', say headteachers
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  • Mar 11, 2022
When will our exam factory culture end?
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Exams Exam reforms
  • Feb 14, 2022
Scrap exams to help pupils get jobs, says Lord Young of Graffham, Thatcher’s favourite businessman
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Exam reforms Assessments
  • Feb 4, 2022
The inequity of exams: How our assessment system perpetuates harmful stereotypes about disadvantaged groups
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  • Feb 2, 2022
Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review
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  • Feb 2, 2022
ASCL comment on IAC report into the future of assessment and qualifications in England
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GCSEs Exam reforms
  • Feb 2, 2022
Exams: Reform GCSEs and let students take them when they are 19, independent review says
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  • Feb 2, 2022
GCSEs should not be fixed at age 16, says report
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  • Feb 2, 2022
Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review
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GCSEs Exam reforms
  • Feb 2, 2022
GCSEs and A-levels 2022: Heads urge Government to review ‘fairness’ of exam plans in wake of Omicron surge
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  • Jan 25, 2022
Changing exams will futureproof pupils and society
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Exam reforms Covid impact
  • Jan 12, 2022
Schoolchildren at up to 100 schools will take A-Level and GCSEs papers online this year in 'radical' digital exams trial
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Online exams Exam reforms GCSEs A-levels
  • Jan 4, 2022
Pupils set to sit trial GCSE and A-level exams online
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Online exams GCSEs A-levels Exam reforms
  • Jan 3, 2022
Let's not make a mockery of education
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Exam reforms
  • Dec 14, 2021
Education Scotland adds its weight to exams reform calls
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Scotland Exam reforms Curriculum reforms
  • Dec 8, 2021
Scotland: Half of parents find exams unfair and demoralising
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  • Dec 4, 2021
Why we need the return of exams — and not the scrapping of GCSEs
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Exam reforms GCSEs
  • Dec 3, 2021
Covid revealed 'desperate need' for exams reform
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Exam reforms Covid impact
  • Dec 2, 2021
Dr Jo Saxton: No one will be able to say I hid away in the Ofqual attic
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Jo Saxton Ofqual Exam reforms
  • Nov 19, 2021
GCSEs & A-levels: Computer-based exams matter of ‘not if, but when’, with online tests possible in three years
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  • Nov 18, 2021
Exams reform chief shocked by Scottish schools set-up
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Nov 11, 2021
Scotland: Changes to exams 'must be bearable for teachers'
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Exam reforms Scotland
  • Nov 10, 2021
Professor suggests Scottish National 5 exams are 'not the most effective way' to assess early school leavers
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  • Nov 10, 2021
SNP urged to act as strikes set to cause Scots exams 'chaos' over plans to scrap SQA
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  • Nov 10, 2021
Strikes set to hit Scots exams in row over plans to scrap SQA
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Scotland SQA Exam reforms Strikes
  • Nov 8, 2021
Difficult words should be removed from exams in equality drive to avoid 'demotivating' pupils
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 2, 2021
Ofqual wants to turn over a new leaf with idiom-free exams
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 2, 2021
Scotland: Call to reverse SNP school test reforms
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  • Nov 2, 2021
Tough questions should be at end of exam papers to avoid ‘demotivating’ students
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 1, 2021
The changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 1, 2021
Ofqual seeks views on accessible assessments for students
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Exam reforms Assessments
  • Nov 1, 2021
English exam boards may be asked to avoid ‘complex language’
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 1, 2021
Avoid ‘complex language’ and stereotypes to make exams accessible, says draft guidance
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 1, 2021
Avoid ‘complex language’ and stereotypes to make exams accessible, says draft guidance
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 1, 2021
Ofqual to consult on using simpler language in exams
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Exam reforms
  • Nov 1, 2021
Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped
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Exam reforms Scotland
  • Oct 27, 2021
Exams to remain as SNP warned over 'woefully inadequate' qualification overhaul timetable
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Exam reforms Scotland
  • Oct 27, 2021
Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped, Education Secretary says
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Oct 27, 2021
Scotland: We won't scrap exams, says Somerville
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Oct 27, 2021
Why our memory-based exams system is redundant in 2021
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Exam reforms
  • Oct 25, 2021
Exams: GCSE reform isn’t as simple as stick or twist
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Exam reforms GCSEs
  • Oct 24, 2021
Will GCSEs be scrapped? Why England’s exam system could face major overhaul after Covid results fiasco
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  • Oct 18, 2021
The battle for the future of assessment: ‘We must hasten slowly’
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  • Oct 12, 2021
Scotland’s pandemic exam system touted as a future model
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  • Oct 11, 2021
SQA exams: CBI Scotland policy chief in call for overhaul
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Scotland Exam reforms SQA
  • Oct 4, 2021
Scotland: Anger as exams are dismissed as ‘British Victorian relic’
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  • Oct 1, 2021
Exams overhaul call as pandemic signals need for 21st-century testing system
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  • Sep 30, 2021
Exams 2022 - a call to action
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  • Sep 20, 2021
Heads call for end to EBacc targets after Gibb's exit
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EBacc Exam reforms GCSEs
  • Sep 16, 2021
ASCL’s blueprint to tackle education’s ‘entrenched injustice’
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Education reforms Exam reforms Disadvantaged pupils Attainment gap
  • Sep 14, 2021
Assessment reform must go hand-in-hand with resetting standards
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Education reforms Assessments Exam reforms
  • Sep 10, 2021
Overhaul exams system to protect teens’ mental health, new school leader says
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Exam reforms Mental health
  • Sep 6, 2021
Exam system in England needs an overhaul, says schools leader
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Exam reforms
  • Sep 6, 2021
OECD review: Is Scotland ‘wedded to exams’?
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OECD Scotland Exam reforms
  • Sep 3, 2021
Backlash as SNP considers axing National 5 exams in school overhaul
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 31, 2021
Scrapping exams at 16 ‘will help modernise Scottish schools’
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 31, 2021
Scotland: Scrap National 5s to clean up the school system, ministers urged
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Exam reforms Scotland
  • Aug 31, 2021
Education expert calls for 'decluttering' of Scottish secondary school exams
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 31, 2021
OECD report: could it spell the end for S4 exams?
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Scotland OECD Exam reforms
  • Aug 31, 2021
Scottish education: OECD study proposes exams overhaul
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Scotland OECD Exam reforms
  • Aug 31, 2021
Covid in Scotland: Most councils failed to challenge pandemic exam system
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  • Aug 24, 2021
Scotland: Shame on councils who didn’t speak up about exams
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  • Aug 24, 2021
On the SQA and Scottish school exams: We need to redefine success
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  • Aug 20, 2021
Scottish Qualifications Authority limps on into next year
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  • Aug 20, 2021
A levels: No.10 discussing numerical grades for 2023
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A-levels Numerical grades Exam reforms
  • Aug 17, 2021
Exams regulator and minister to face questions on summer results and plans for next academic year
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  • Aug 16, 2021
Schools left in 'limbo' over future of exams, Scottish Tories say
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Scotland Exams Exam reforms
  • Aug 16, 2021
Scottish Government warned exam ‘reprieve’ must not be temporary
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 15, 2021
Expert report says 'do-or-die' GCSE exams should be axed completely
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 15, 2021
Experts want end of 'unfair' and 'stressful' tests that don't 'measure what's important in pupil's futures'
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Exam reforms Assessments
  • Aug 15, 2021
Let’s not return to flawed exams. We have better ways to assess our children
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 15, 2021
Education experts: ‘End do-or-die exams for teens’
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 15, 2021
Education union says GCSE exams 'no longer fit for purpose' and should be scrapped
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 14, 2021
The Government are determined to cling onto one miserable aspect of school - exams
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 14, 2021
Exam grades could be fixed at 2020 levels over the next few years for 'fairness'
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Exam reforms Grading
  • Aug 14, 2021
Ministers struggle to find fair solution for pupil assessment in England
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Assessments Exam reforms
  • Aug 13, 2021
Exams 2021: Why new grade boundaries may be inevitable
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Exam reforms Grade boundaries
  • Aug 13, 2021
To be fair, we can do better than exams
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  • Aug 13, 2021
Don’t leave us out of A-level reform debate, say universities
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A-levels Exam reforms
  • Aug 13, 2021
Exams should change after the experience of the last two years, says Education Minister Jeremy Miles
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Wales Exam reforms
  • Aug 12, 2021
This is an opportunity for the UK to radically rethink school exams
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Results day Exam reforms
  • Aug 12, 2021
Ministers consider overhaul of exams marking as almost a third of entries are predicted to get top results today
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Exam reforms Results day
  • Aug 12, 2021
Parents could join campaign to scrap GCSEs ‘if even more top grades awarded’
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 12, 2021
Use 2020 as baseline for future exam results, argues former DfE adviser
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 11, 2021
Reform GCSEs permanently, education experts urge government
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Exam reforms GCSEs
  • Aug 11, 2021
Next year’s exams could be statistically contentious if we don’t act now
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 11, 2021
Next year’s exams could be statistically contentious if we don’t act now
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 11, 2021
The proposed changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained
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  • Aug 11, 2021
Scottish exams 2021: System for 2022 to be announced 'within days'
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  • Aug 11, 2021
Scotland: Announcement on 2022 exams ‘in next few days’
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 11, 2021
SQA exams could return with education secretary to make announcement 'within days'
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Exam reforms Scotland
  • Aug 11, 2021
A-level grades could be scrapped to end 'free-for-all' on top marks
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  • Aug 11, 2021
Magnus Linklater: Must do better - it is time to reform exams and regain trust
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Scotland Exam results Teacher assessment Grade inflation Exam reforms
  • Aug 11, 2021
Results may have arrived – but reform has only just begun
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Exam reforms
  • Aug 10, 2021
SQA exams reform: 'rushed policy is bad policy'
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 10, 2021
The proposed changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained
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  • Aug 10, 2021
Scottish exams 2021: Early results make case for retention of traditional tests, claim Scottish Tories
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 9, 2021
Exam changes can’t compensate for Covid hit to disadvantaged pupils, says government
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  • Jul 13, 2021
Most teachers are against scrapping GCSEs
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  • Jun 28, 2021
Pandemic will force changes to next year’s GCSEs and A-levels
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Coronavirus Exam reforms
  • Jun 24, 2021
Exams in England to be adjusted next year to ‘ensure fairness’
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Exam reforms Coronavirus
  • Jun 23, 2021
Exams face Covid disruption next year and beyond, warns Gavin Williamson
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Coronavirus Exam reforms
  • Jun 23, 2021
Exams altered next year after pandemic disruption
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Coronavirus Exam reforms
  • Jun 23, 2021
No immediate return to pre-Covid exams for schools next year, says Gavin Williamson
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  • Jun 23, 2021
Williamson looking at adaptions for 2022 exams to ensure ‘right level of support for pupils’
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  • Jun 23, 2021
Williamson: No immediate switch back to pre-Covid GCSEs
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Coronavirus Exam reforms
  • Jun 23, 2021
OECD report: How should Scotland change its exams?
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  • Jun 21, 2021
GCSEs: 4 ways teachers want exams to change
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  • Jun 16, 2021
The proposed changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained
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Exam reforms GCSEs A-levels
  • Jun 9, 2021
The proposed changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams, explained
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Exam reforms
  • Jun 3, 2021
Scotland should scrap outdated exams, says OECD
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • May 31, 2021
Reform exam system for pupils’ sake, head of Association of School and College Leaders says
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Exam reforms
  • May 25, 2021
GCSEs and A-levels 2022: 'Teachers need to know changes by Autumn'
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GCSEs A-levels Exams Exam reforms Ofqual
  • May 7, 2021
SQA exams 2021: 5 things we learned about what's replacing them
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Coronavirus Exams Scotland SQA Exam reforms
  • Mar 5, 2021
Education directors join calls for exam reform
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Exam reforms Scotland National qualifications
  • Mar 2, 2021
Grade inflation could be here to stay unless entire exam system is overhauled, Ofqual advisor warns
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  • Feb 26, 2021
Why we shouldn’t rush to scrap GCSEs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
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  • Feb 19, 2021
Why teachers should take control of 2021 exams
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Coronavirus GCSEs A-levels Exams Grading Results Teacher assessment Exam boards Exam reforms
  • Feb 18, 2021
More calls for exam system to be overhauled
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Coronavirus Curriculum review Exam reforms
  • Jan 20, 2021
Scotland: Use tech to bring National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers out of the 19th century, say advisers
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Dec 18, 2020
Scotland's traditional exams should be abolished after pandemic, SNP advisers recommend
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Coronavirus Scotland Exam reforms
  • Dec 17, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon told high school exams 'out of date and in need of reform'
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Dec 17, 2020
Scottish secondary exams 'out of date' and should be phased out, says report
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Coronavirus Exam reforms Scotland Secondary
  • Dec 17, 2020
From amid teachers' anger and pupils' anxiety must come changes to Scotland's exam system
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Exam reforms Scotland Coronavirus
  • Dec 11, 2020
Covid has shown us it's vital to push for exam reform
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Coronavirus Exam reforms GCSEs A-levels
  • Dec 4, 2020
Does the exams system need a complete overhaul?
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Exams GCSEs A-levels Coronavirus Exam reforms
  • Nov 14, 2020
Proposed changes to 2021 exams deemed ‘gobbledygook’
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Scotland Exams Exam reforms
  • Aug 26, 2020
New project pushes for reform of exams in Scotland
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Scotland Exam reforms
  • Aug 21, 2020
NEU demands reduced content for A-levels and GCSEs in 2021 as students find tests 'too stressful'
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A-levels GCSEs Unions Exam reforms
  • Aug 19, 2020
SQA results: Nicola Sturgeon opens door to exams reform
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Scotland Exam reforms Grading Teacher assessment
  • Aug 7, 2020
Calls to scrap pen and paper exams by 2025
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Exam reforms Technology
  • Feb 10, 2020
A-level exam reforms favour middle class, former chief examiner says
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Exam reforms A-levels
  • Aug 12, 2019
Updated ISC statement: Exam reforms and IGCSEs
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  • Apr 4, 2019
Ireland: Disadvantaged pupils fall behind after Leaving Cert exam reforms
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Disadvantaged pupils Ireland Leaving Certificate Exam reforms Attainment gap
  • Jan 17, 2019
ISC statement: Exam reforms and IGCSEs
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  • Jan 3, 2019
Private schools accused of 'cheating the GCSE system to rig their results'
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  • Dec 30, 2018
Private schools `cheating GCSE system to boost results´
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  • Dec 29, 2018
Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
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  • Dec 29, 2018
Less than half of pupils understand GCSE reforms, survey finds
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GCSEs Exam reforms
  • Sep 7, 2018
Full impact of Michael Gove’s GCSE exam reforms may not be seen for years
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GCSE Michael Gove Exam reforms
  • Aug 23, 2018
The Tes Podcast: A-level results day 2018
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A-levels Exam results Unconditional offers Exam reforms Mental health
  • Aug 16, 2018
Geoff Barton: What exactly was the point of exam reforms?
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ASCL Geoff Barton Exam reforms A-levels Exam results
  • Aug 16, 2018
Exam reforms narrowing the curriculum, DfE official admits
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  • Jul 5, 2018