Search results for ‘GCSE’
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FactCheck: When are teacher strikes in spring 2023 and why are they happening?
Some teachers in England will take industrial action again after rejecting the latest pay offer. But when will they go on strike and will schools close? FactCheck takes a look.
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Government must commit to radical reform of social care system, says report
The author of a landmark report into children’s social care in England has told this programme the government must commit to radical reform of the whole system – a system failing some of the most vulnerable children in care.
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Railway shutdown: UK facing biggest train strike in decades
The government has denounced the biggest train strike for decades as an “act of self harm”.
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Tory MP hopes education spending plans are ‘starter and not the main course’
Before the news of Sir Kevan Collins’ resignation emerged, we spoke to the Conservative MP and chair of the Commons Education Committee, Robert Halfon, and 15-year-old Thea Roland, a school pupil who has just finished her GCSEs.
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‘This year… is just horrendous,’ says A-level student
We spoke to Birmingham A-level student Renae Gardner about the planned teacher assessed GCSEs and A Level grades.
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MPs vote on England Covid lockdown
MPs have voted to approve England’s new lockdown laws.
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U-turn on England’s exam grades as teacher estimates to be used
Tens of thousands of students will now get the exam results they were hoping for after all – following today’s humiliating climbdown by the government over England’s A-level and GCSEs.
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FactCheck: did England exam system favour private schools?
The percentage of students getting top grades in fee-paying institutions is up 5 points on last year.
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FactCheck: how will exam results in England, Wales and NI work?
The Education Secretary announced a ‘triple lock’ for pupils in England late last night.
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FactCheck: anger over Scottish exam grades likely to be repeated across the UK
English, Welsh and Northern Irish regulators will use a school’s past performance when deciding students’ grades.
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Exams grades in England to be decided by teacher assessment, mocks and coursework
Today the exam regulator in England said GCSE and A-Level grades would be awarded based on mock exam results, teacher assessments and coursework.
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Final school day for pupils tomorrow – amid uncertainty and turmoil over exams
For some children it’s a cause for celebration, but for those ready to sit GCSE and A-level exams the plan to close all schools from tomorrow spells uncertainty and turmoil.
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Ofsted condemns ‘off rolling’
According to Ofsted’s annual report, 19 thousand pupils vanished from the school roll between 2016 and 2017. Around half of them disappeared without trace.
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GSCE grades improve despite more demanding exams
Thousands of teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been mostly celebrating their GCSE results – with better overall grades this year, despite reforms which have made the exams more demanding. Critics say the changes disadvantage students with special needs and from difficult backgrounds. Keme Nzerem has been in Clacton-on-sea, at a school which…
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Professor Green on white working-class men
White working-class men are the least likely social group to get five GCSEs or to go to university. Some 35,000 of them are currently in the prison system. Alienated, switched off, or feeling ignored? Well, Stephen Manderson, who’s better known as the award-winning rapper Professor Green, grew up on a council estate in Hackney, and…