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A-levels: Pupils can appeal ‘lower than predicted’ results
Pupils can appeal A-level grades if they are lower than what was predicted by teachers following an outcry over results.
A-levels and GCSEs: U-turn as teacher estimates to be used for exam results
A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, after a government U-turn.
A-level U-turn: What happens now for students and what about university places?
It’s been a tumultuous few days for young people who were let down by the A-level moderation system and with the latest u-turn everyone will be asking – what happens now?
A-level and GCSE results: Call for urgent review into grading ‘fiasco’
The education secretary has been urged to launch a review into the handling of A-level and GCSE results after exams were cancelled due to coronavirus.
Additional 1.5 million children should be given free school meals, government review finds
The effects of hunger on young bodies (and minds) are serious and long-lasting, and exacerbate social inequalities’, government report finds
Transferable Skills: From Teacher to Tutor
Chantelle E is a primary tutor in Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames. She shares her knowledge on what it takes to transfer from a career in teaching, to a career in private tutoring.
Cut back GCSEs and A-levels next year, say heads
Head teachers in England say GCSEs and A-levels will have to be slimmed down for next year’s exams, because of the teaching time lost in the lockdown.
Distancing could be scrapped and classes doubled to 30 in bid to get kids back in school
Schools will be asked to focus on implementing hygiene regimes and limiting the extent to which children mix with other pupils outside of their class or year group
Coronavirus: All children in England ‘back to school in September’
All pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced.
Coronavirus: £1bn catch-up tutoring fund for England’s pupils
A £1bn fund to help England’s children catch up on what they have missed while schools have been closed has been announced by the prime minister.
