Exam board AQA will return an extra £3.5 million to schools for last summer’s cancelled exams, however it still lags behind other board’s more generous rebates.
The country’s largest board was widely criticised for returning only 26 per cent of GCSE and A-level fees to schools last summer. This was despite teachers shouldering the “lion’s share” of work to create teacher-assessed grades, heads said.
But the charity told schools this month that it will return extra cash as the Department for Education covered costs relating to the autumn exams series. This takes its total refund to £48.5 million.
