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The story behind the GCSE and A-level exam results U-turn
The fiasco around grading has thrown the entire education sector into disarray.
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Students burn their A-level results outside parliament in protest of ‘downgrading’
Some fire and a lot of fury spilled on to the streets today as angry students in England called for the sacking of the Education Secretary and put a match to their A-levels results.
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A-level student Noor Abedin – ‘It does affect the way you think about yourself, about your abilities’
We’re joined now by two A-level students who have had their results downgraded.
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Some universities accept lower grades following A-level results outcry
Today some Universities said they would accept lower grades from students who’ve been offered places even if they haven’t got the result they’d hoped for.
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Government faces pressure from Labour and Tory MPs over England’s A-level results
Labour has called on ministers to act immediately to sort out what it says is a “fiasco”.
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Head teacher says A-level results process is ‘absolutely bewildering’ and puts schools in difficult situation
We spoke to Dame Alice Hudson, the executive head teacher of four secondary schools in west London.
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Some students fear A-level disruption could cost them university places
Many students fear the disruption caused by the pandemic could rob them of the university places they’d hoped for.
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Schools minister says government wanted to ‘maintain the value’ of A-levels
We spoke to the schools minister Nick Gibb – and asked him why so many students in England had seen their A-level grades lowered.
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Almost 40% of predicted A-level results downgraded
Thousands of A-level students have been given lower grades than their teachers predicted.
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Concerns over disadvantaged children facing unfair treatment in GCSE and A-Level results
The nail-biting wait for GCSE and A-Level results will have an added surreal quality this August, as pupils hear what grades they will get for exams they did not sit because of the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Proportion of students getting top A-levels drops to lowest level in a decade
The proportion of students who achieved top A-level grades has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade. Teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their results this morning – a quarter of them received A or A-star grades. But some schools did buck the trend – Brampton Manor Academy in East…
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FactCheck Q&A: Are A-levels what they used to be?
Thousands of students have just received their A-level results and discovered whether they are off to university. But with so many students getting good grades and going to university, is the whole experience worth the same as it once was? FactCheck looked into the details.
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A-level students: teenage optimism vs hard truths
It’s A-level results day and before these students could fully enjoy themselves, Channel 4 News thought they’d go and tell them a few hard ‘truths’.
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Missed your A-level grades? Overshot? What to do next
If you have not quite got the grades you were after, or perhaps have done better than predicted, what should you do next?
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What impact is A-level reform having on university hopefuls?
Students can no longer resit A-level exams in January, meaning some who miss their offer grades may forgo university altogether.