Is remarking a luxury most schools can afford?
At anywhere between £20 and £60 a paper, remarking is a luxury many schools simply can’t afford, writes Jackie Long
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MPs call for standardised national syllabuses as part of reforms to remove “perverse incentives” for students to take dumbed-down exams at school.
Channel 4 News lifts the lid on a multimillion pound exam industry, revealing the extent exam boards profit from increased school fees, despite claiming tax-free charitable status.
At anywhere between £20 and £60 a paper, remarking is a luxury many schools simply can’t afford, writes Jackie Long
Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long asks why are examiners making so many mistakes in their marking of papers, and why in some cases are they not correcting it?
The whistleblower suspended for alerting schools to mistakes in the marking of last year’s GCSE and A-Levels tells Channel 4 News that “thousands” of papers could have been marked incorrectly.
A Channel 4 News investigation reveals exam boards making money from their own mistakes, how state schools are more likely to lose out, and the man who raised the alarm is suspended.
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Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins Afghanistan’s top female boxers as they fight their way to the London 2012 Olympics.
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The half a million or so schoolchildren taking GCSEs next year might be better off if international football tournaments didn’t take place at all – or at least if England had failed to qualify!