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Progress 8: A third of pupils’ GCSE entries don’t fit reformed measure

Changes will make ‘little difference’ to scores but likely to affect qualification entries, finds Datalab analysis

2024 league tables delayed until after parents pick secondary school

Government also extends deadline for school results checking exercises until November 7 after issues with results

Progress 8 pause: Heads call for wider review

But some heads have warned the sector could creep back to GCSE pass grades being the accountability ‘king’

How schools with the poorest intakes boosted progress

Heads explain how they improved behaviour, changed leadership and reached outside of the school gates to boost results

7 policies from Pearson to make exams fit for the future

Exam board advocates changes to performance measures and a rethink of the English and maths resit policy following major inquiry

Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables

Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won’t count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort

GCSE results 2021: Top grades rise most at private and free schools

Private and free schools have seen the biggest jump in top grades in this year’s teacher-assessed GCSE results, figures show. Across England, the proportion of GCSE results overall at grade 7 and above—equivalent to a grade A under the previous system—rose to 28.7 per cent, up from 25.9 per cent last year and 20.7 per […]

Pearson apologises after BTEC gaffe hits schools’ progress 8 scores

Ministers have vowed to amend schools’ progress 8 scores after it was discovered some were as much as 0.2 points lower than expected because Pearson sent incomplete BTEC results to the government. The exam board has apologised after some schools checked Department for Education data on Thursday and were shocked to see that their progress […]

Harris schools swamp ESOL exam with native English speakers

A top trust last year entered hundreds of native English speakers into a qualification intended for pupils with English as a second language. In February Luke Tryl, then Ofsted’s director of strategy, warned that the watchdog was looking at secondary schools entering native speakers into the Cambridge International level 1/2 certificate in English for Speakers […]