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Exams: Try rest breaks before asking for extra time, schools told 

New JCQ guidance says supervised rest breaks 'often more effective and appropriate' than extra exam time

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
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Year 8s to sit mandatory reading test under white paper plans

Move to ensure poorer pupils are not shut off from wider curriculum, but results will be published at national...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Poorer pupils do better in more disadvantaged schools, report says

Researchers also find worst-performing areas for disadvantaged kids likely to have more poor white youngsters

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
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University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
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WJEC exam board fined £350k after wrong food GCSE results

Ofqual to issue WJEC with six-figure penalty after 1,527 food preparation and nutrition GCSE pupils received incorrect results

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
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Schools ‘over a barrel’ as exam fees rise again

Cost of exams will increase at a greater rate than school funding in 2026, with some provided by AQA...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual probe finds exam extra time figures wrong for years

Statistics withdrawn after regulator review finds they 'significantly overstated' the number of access arrangements

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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Scaled scores for 2025 key stage 2 SATs announced

Department for Education publishes marks pupils need to meet the 'expected' standard

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual scrutinising Edexcel’s A-level maths replacement paper

Pupils complain that replacement paper missed swathes of content they had expected it to cover

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker