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Boys’ A-level performance set to rise this year, predicts academic

This year’s A-level results are expected to show a surge in performance among boys, despite a fall in top...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Final exam results are becoming less valid

The evidence base for exam results is becoming less valid as the system moves back to wholly end-of-course testing,...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

‘Standard’ and ‘strong’ GCSE pass rates: what is Greening talking about?

Education secretary Justine Greening announced today that a grade 4 will now be considered “a standard pass”, while grade...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Schools call on MPs to fight ‘grossly unfair’ Progress 8

School leaders want MPs to fight the government’s “grossly unfair and discriminatory” Progress 8 measure that will award three...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Exam re-mark requests plummet after Ofqual reforms

The number of exam grades that were changed after being re-marked has dropped by 25 per cent this year,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Primary school key stage 2 performance tables: 8 key progress findings

Pupils in primary schools across the country vary in their progress – under the government’s new value-added measure –...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Prep school exaggerated 11-plus results

A prep school boasting of its impressive record of getting pupils to grammar school has been rapped by the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

How worrying is the drop in Science results?

GCSE results out. Ofqual have released numbers showing the dips and rises in school numbers. It shows a quirk...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

GCSE A*-C pass rate drops sharply

The 2016 GCSE results are out and show a sharp fall of 2.1 percentage points in the pass rate,...

Features Team
Features Team