Friday
Exclusive: Delay baseline tests until 2022, say peers
Lords committee calls for ‘flexibility’ for schools to postpone the introduction of baseline assessment to spring term
GCSEs: ‘Schools have been well and truly dumped on’
Schools are doing the heavy lifting for GCSE and A level – so it’s galling they face exam board fees, says Geoff Barton
‘Some exam papers are already on TikTok’
Scottish teachers say the exam replacement system is ‘a shambles’ – but those behind it say no one has come up with a better model
Imperfect exam replacement model ‘is nobody’s fault’
School closures made ‘assessment schedules’ necessary – but these are not exams, argues Maureen McKenna
GCSEs 2021: Don’t ‘test, test, test’, teachers told
Exclusive: Ofqual chair Ian Bauckham says grade submission was delayed to late June to allow for more teaching time
GCSEs 2022: ‘Teachers need to know changes by autumn’
Exclusive: Teachers will be notified of significant changes to exams in 2022 by this September, says Ofqual chair
Attainment: Why schools must divert from flight paths
Using prior-attainment data to place students in sets or give them a target grade to work towards not only adds to teachers’ workloads but can actually have a detrimental effect on children’s learning, argues Megan Mansworth
Thursday
GCSEs 2021: Heads ‘anxious’ over summer appeal workload
‘A great deal of additional work’ around grade appeals could fall on schools during summer holidays, heads’ union warns
How OCR is likely to offend...well, everyone, really
For some reason, exam board OCR seems to believe there is only one gender, says Tabitha McIntosh
Wednesday
GCSEs: Pay us for ‘horrendous’ grade work, say teachers
Exclusive: Union says teachers in England deserve £400 ‘token’ for grading and moderation – the same as in Scotland
‘Ofqual’s plans for autumn exams are simply farcical’
The decision to hold autumn exams shows no understanding of how teachers teach or students learn, says Adam Riches
