Author: John Dickens

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has said that he is ‘hoping’ BTEC and similar vocational grades will be included in the teacher grade U-turn. Earlier today exams regulator Ofqual confirmed that both A-level and GCSEs students will now be given their centre assessment grades, or keep their calculated grade if it is higher. But this didn’t […]

Exams regulator Ofqual has confirmed that both A-level and GCSEs students will be given their teacher grades in what is a major U-turn for the government. The announcement, trailed by national newspaper journalists on Twitter earlier today, follows mounting pressure on the government over last week’s calculated grades that were mostly awarded based on Ofqual’s algorithm. […]

Ofqual has said it’s sorry for creating a results system that caused “real anguish” as it’s confirmed pupils will now be awarded teacher grades. As reported earlier, the government has confirmed that pupils will be awarded their centre assessment grades, as opposed to Ofqual’s calculated grades, in a major U-turn. However pupils whose calculated grades […]

An Ofqual adviser has broken ranks to brand the handling of this year’s results as an “absolute shambles”, suggesting the only solution to quell the growing outrage may be to award pupils their teacher grades. Professor Rob Coe, who sits on the regulator’s standards advisory committee, told the Radio 4 Today programme the awarding of […]

Ministers are set to announce this afternoon that both A-level and GCSEs students will be awarded their teacher grades in a major U-turn following this year’s results fiasco. The expected announcement, also reported by national newspaper journalists on Twitter, follows mounting pressure on the government over last week’s calculated grades that were mostly awarded based on […]

“I aim to have a voice – I want to be heard on behalf of all students who have been downgraded.” That’s the emotional plea from one of the six pupils pursuing judicial review of exams regulator Ofqual over failings in its process for awarding A-level results. The first formal step in the legal challenge, […]

The exams regulator has sensationally removed its guidance on mock exam appeals just hours after first publishing it – claiming the policy is now being “reviewed”. Earlier today Ofqual published the eight criteria that mock exam grades must meet to be deemed valid and used as part of appeals for downgraded pupils. However the guidance […]

Mock exams must meet eight separate criteria to be classed as ‘valid’ and used to appeal downgraded pupils’ results – but graded non-exam assessments can also be used, Ofqual has confirmed. Successful appeals will see pupils awarded their mock grade, unless it is higher than the centre-assessed grade. In such cases, pupils will be awarded […]