Jackie Long
Schools under pressure for underperforming
Judging comprehensives against fee-paying selective schools is not comparing like with like, as the Chief Inspector should know only too well.
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FactCheck: when can you leave education?
Most teenagers who got their GCSE results today have been told they must stay in education or training until they are 18. But what if they refuse?
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Jackie Long
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Jackie Long
GCSE English and the great Welsh regrades
If you took it in Wales you’ll now get a regrade. If you sat it over the border in England, you won’t. It’s hard to see how this situation could ever be regarded as fair – or how it can remain unchanged.
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Jackie Long
GCSEs: what’s luck got to do with it?
Ofqual’s review into the GCSE marking mess found that students who took exams in January “got lucky”. But you’re not supposed to “get lucky” in the way potentially life-changing exams are graded.
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Jackie Long
Mr Gove dismisses GCSE grade critics
Anger over exam marks as grade boundaries are changed, causing accusations of disadvantaging this year’s students.
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Michael Crick
Why Euro 2012 will hit GCSE results
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!
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Does Labour’s exam paper attack need revising?
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?