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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.
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?
Judging comprehensives against fee-paying selective schools is not comparing like with like, as the Chief Inspector should know only too well.
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.
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.
Anger over exam marks as grade boundaries are changed, causing accusations of disadvantaging this year’s students.
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!
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?