Does the ‘A’ in A-level now stand for anxiety?
As hundreds of thousands of students receive their A-level results, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long blogs on how the world that students will be entering has changed in the last few decades.
As hundreds of thousands of students receive their A-level results, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long blogs on how the world that students will be entering has changed in the last few decades.
The proportion of students receiving top grades at A-level falls after years of successive rises, following changes in the way exams are marked.
Exam boards advised to limit the number of A grades to guard against accusations that exams are getting easier, but experts tell Channel 4 News the move may disadvantage hard-working pupils.
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.
The education secretary has revealed plans to scrap GCSE exams for children in England and replace them with something akin to O-levels – which his party got rid of nearly 25 years ago.
Michael Gove intends to scrap GCSEs and bring back O-levels in two years time, in the most radical overhaul of the exams system for over 30 years.
As the exams regulator publishes its plans for reform of A-levels, top universities welcome a proposal to restrict the number of re-sits students are able to take.
At anywhere between £20 and £60 a paper, remarking is a luxury many schools simply can’t afford, writes Jackie Long
Following our investigation into an exam board covering up marking errors, Channel 4 News answers your questions about applying for a re-mark, the chances of changing your grade and how much it costs.
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.
Channel 4 News reveals how Michael Gove’s plans for Russell Group universities to have more input into A-levels is not such a new idea.
Who marks the markers? Exam boards are under fire after a spate of mistakes in papers. But have Labour been swotting up on the details?