Friday
Revealed: How the second lockdown widened learning loss
The disadvantage gap had widened by 6 per cent for primary pupils and 7 per cent for secondary students by the end of the second Covid lockdown
SQA back in the spotlight over exams equality concerns
The beleaguered Scottish Qualifications Authority might be living on borrowed time, but the recent scrutiny over its exam policies has highlighted key equality issues
Wednesday
We won’t scrap exams, says Somerville
The Scottish government supports qualifications reform – but externally assessed exams will remain, says minister
GCSE English: 5 most common Spag errors in schools
Spelling, punctuation and grammar matters in exams, so we need to notice and correct these common mistakes when they crop up in secondary schools, says Laura Tsabet
No action taken by SQA over sharing of exams online
The exam body told schools to investigate incidents and take action – but collected no data on candidate malpractice in 2021
Monday
Why our memory-based exams system is redundant in 2021
Moving away from the outmoded exam system would help schools genuinely prepare students for the future, says Claire Cowie
Why arts subjects were hit so hard in the pandemic
Recent data from the ONS revealed surprising insights into how badly hit arts subjects were by the pandemic – and how hard the return to school has been too, as James O’Malley investigates
