GCSE students in Northern Ireland will have their results decided based on teachers' predictions, after the controversial moderating system was scrapped. Just days before the grades were due to be ...

A-level and GCSE students in Wales will get their exam results as predicted by teachers instead of an algorithm, after the controversial system was scrapped. It follows the earlier announcement in ...

<p>Just days before the grades were due to be published, the devolved government announced it wanted to "ease anxieties" among pupils and their families.</p><p>The ...

GCSE and A-level pupils were celebrating record grades today — but half a million BTec students were still awaiting results and thousands of young people remained in the dark over places at sixth ...

<p>Education Secretary Gavin Williamson apologised following the major government U-turn, which came after growing fury from pupils and Tory MPs about the <a href ...

Prominent Suffolk headteachers are urging the government to scrap the ‘blatantly unfair’ algorithm which could severely impact students’ grades ahead of GCSE results day. Dave Lee-Allan, headteacher ...

Students in the UK didn't sit GCSE or A-level exams this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. An algorithm was instead created by the official exam regulator, Ofqual, to assess students' grades - ...

More than 4.5million GCSE results will be awarded using the controversial algorithm which downgraded thousands of A-level results, new analysis has shown. According to the Observer, 4.6million of GCSE ...

Record numbers of students have received top grades in their GCSEs this year after a Government U-turn meant results were decided solely on teachers’ estimates. Hundreds of thousands of pupils are ...

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