The Times Education Commission is the latest body to call for an overhaul of GCSE examination. Nansi Ellis considers what is wrong with our current system and how we might change it...
As we come to the end of summer exams, many will breathe a sigh of relief. In-person exams have resumed, and while there were changes it has felt like a return to “normal”.
But the questions aren’t going away – why are we still commandeering school gyms for teenagers to sit in silent rows, hand-writing what they can remember in eight and 16-mark segments, in papers that will be painstakingly collected and driven around the country to be marked?
