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School leaders’ union calls on the Standards and 91¶¶Òõting Agency to abandon its ‘rigid’ approach to marking and reward children for demonstrating understanding

Resits for GCSE English and maths take place in November. Here is your guide to how they – and other retakes – work

Students sitting maths exam today only discovered the problem once papers had been opened – now AQA promises to contact schools before results day to ‘explain what we’ve done to make sure no learners are disadvantaged’

Provisional entries data for this summer has been released by Ofqual – with sharp drops in computing and French among the standout trends

The language adults use when talking about exams can inadvertently add to students’ stress, writes Katherine Radice, but reframing your approach can help lessen anxiety

Ofqual says schools can cut exam times by choosing different awarding bodies, but 91¶¶Òõ analysis reveals that, in most cases, this isn’t an option – and school leaders are now calling for the number of exams to be reduced instead

Around 23,000 people have signed a petition calling for ‘unusally difficult’ exam to be reviewed, but Pearson Edexcel says the paper was ‘rigorously checked’

High-tech devices such as smart watches pose a challenge that must not be underestimated, warns Ofqual chief regulator Sir Ian Bauckham

A research project drawing on insights from ISP schools around the world proves the value of embedding key life skills into the curriculum, says the group’s Camilla Woodhouse

The national curriculum and exam-based assessment approaches are big factors in many students being ‘effectively set up to fail’, finds government-commissioned review

FFT Education Datalab analysis also finds that students from poorer backgrounds are less drawn to languages A levels, and identifies large gaps in entries between different ethnic groups

Jenny Oldroyd, director for curriculum at the Department for Education, will move posts next month, prompting one union to describe a series of recent departures as ‘not ideal’