Exams

SEND pupils now allowed to listen to music during exams

Schools will also be able to use mental health support service referral letters to apply for extra support

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
A-level results 2024

A-level results 2024: Future exams will be pegged to more generous 2023 baseline

Students achieved more A*s this year than every year since 2010 (outside of teacher grades), despite Covid learning loss....

John Dickens
John Dickens and Samantha Booth
A-level results 2024

A-level results 2024: Which subjects had the most top grades?

What are the subject results? Which had the highest grades? Which had the lowest? Schools Week takes a look...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Exams

Exams: Entries boost in statistics and engineering GCSEs

Further maths and physics A-levels also see increase in entries, but GCSE citizenship and A-level sociology become less popular

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Exams: GCSE and A-level prices soar by inflation-busting 6.4%

CPI over the same period was 3.8%, but Ofqual says prices in line with inflation over a longer period

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

‘Change on an unprecedented scale’: Ofqual responds to ABS plans

Qualifications reform risks more exams, 'unregulated' A-levels and students unprepared for higher study, says exams regulator

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Unions: ‘Clunky’ advanced British standard risks ‘blunt choice’ for pupils

Ministers accused of 'putting the cart before the horse' with 16-19 reform plans

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

DfE puts 40 staff on Advanced British Standard ‘vanity project’

Government criticised for committing 'platoon of civil servants' to policy unlikely to come to fruition

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers

Ofqual reveals new interim chair

Former teacher and college principal Frances Wadsworth will step up when Sir Ian Bauckham takes up chief regulator post

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen