As the UK moved into lockdown in March, Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, announced that this summer’s GCSE and A level exams would be cancelled. The exams regulator, Ofqual, was instructed ...

The coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for UK students to take any traditional exams. In England, these include GCSEs, the qualifications that mark the end of compulsory school education, AS ...

Teenage angst is hard enough at the best of times. But over the past week, Britain’s students have been put through the wringer. In the end, it was shown to be discriminatory against students from ...

Taking exams is never easy, but it seems that figuring out results with an algorithm is far more difficult. The UK government have learnt the hard and humiliating way that a badly constructed ...

Record numbers of students have received top grades in their GCSEs this year after a Government U-turn meant results were decided solely on teachers’ estimates. Hundreds of thousands of pupils are ...

There will be “no algorithms whatsoever” to determine GCSE and A-Level exam results this year following the chaos of last summer, the Education Secretary has confirmed. Full details of how students ...

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Thousands of students in England are angry about the controversial use of an algorithm to determine this year's GCSE and A-level results. They were unable to sit exams because of lockdown, so the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for UK students to take any traditional exams. In England, these include GCSEs, ...