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
Exams

Ofqual confirms plan for GCSE exam aids in 2024

Exams regulator green lights formulae and equation sheets for one final year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Exams: Pupil cheating rises by a fifth, with harsher punishments

The number of pupils caught cheating in GCSE and A-level exams continues to rise

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

OCR to launch first fully-digital GCSE in 2025

On-screen computer science exam would allow for a 'more authentic assessment', but schools can opt out

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

Thousands more kids leaving school without GCSE grades ‘new norm’

Analysis shows 3.3 per cent of pupils received no grade in English in 2023, compared with 1.7 per cent...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

GCSE disadvantage gap widens again

Gap in attainment between poorer pupils and better-off peers widest since 2011

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Sunak to replace A-levels with ‘Advanced British standard’

PM wants to merge A-levels and T-levels into new single qualification for sixth formers to study five subjects including...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted switches back to exam results ‘as a starting point’

2022-23 results data will be used to inform inspection in the 'normal way'

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

EBacc: DfE plans league table shake-up to ‘incentivise’ take-up

Government to 'explore making changes to the headline EBacc attainment measure'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker