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They say a review of Scottish national qualifications is needed ‘to better recognise and make visible’ student achievement

Lord Baker, who introduced the GCSE in 1986, believes Covid has shown us that the exam has outlived its usefulness

Students return on 8 March but teachers are still in the dark on GCSE assessment – here one teacher shares her plans

91¶¶Òõt will not be used to inform GCSE grading but ‘will provide important evidence about the impact of lost learning’

Cancelling qualifications for S4 students – apart from those leaving school – would alleviate pressure, says union

Now we know how assessments this summer will work, Grainne Hallahan makes predictions about where the problems will lie

International students say cancelling IGCSE and IA-level exams in the UK but going ahead with them overseas is unfair

Head compares IB’s approach of using historical data to allocate grades to the flawed GCSE algorithm of 2020

The ‘whole burden of last year’s fiasco’ is being placed ‘on an unsuspecting workforce’, warns Chartered College chief

When exams were cancelled again this year, few people asked the really big question: should schools be ranking students at all? Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott reflect on what they consider to be an unfortunate accident of the early education system – and a way to fix it

DfE says it will not prohibit exam boards from setting exams overseas – although most have been cancelled already

Sir Jon Coles, who advised Ofqual on 2021 GCSEs and A levels, says the plan risks an outcome ‘much worse than last year’