Schools and colleges face having to pay out tens of thousands more in GCSE and A-level exam fees this year after boards hiked prices by up to 17 per cent.
Both Edexcel, run by Pearson, and OCR have raised fees for all 2023 exams by a flat 6 per cent.
England’s largest exam board AQA has hiked prices by between five and 17 per cent, although it still has the lowest prices overall.
Exam boards, which will earn several million pounds more from schools and colleges after the rises, said they needed to cover rising costs.
But leaders said the increases were “inappropriate” as schools and colleges battle soaring energy and staffing costs.
