Assessment
The latest news and analysis on exams in the UK, including key dates, timetables, results and statistics for Sats, GCSEs and A levels
Wednesday
25th Sep 2024
Call to update exam body’s ‘ageing digital infrastructure’
Around £10 million is needed to bring the technology at Scotland’s qualifications body up to date, says SQA chief executive – who blames its outdated IT systems for blank results-day emails
Why Scottish exams debate distracts from deeper issues
The Scottish government’s response to the Hayward review is symptomatic of a myriad of missed opportunities for the country’s education system, says Barry Black
Curriculum review launches call for evidence
Professor Becky Francis warns that the current system is failing a third of pupils and says the review will focus on disadvantaged students
Monday
23rd Sep 2024
Phillipson defends panel chosen for curriculum review
Speaking at the Labour Party Conference, the education secretary says making the panel bigger would risk it becoming ‘over-wieldy’
Higher history marking review must be ‘thorough and transparent’
The way the Higher history exam was marked this year is to be scrutinised after the pass rate dropped by over 10 percentage points
Thursday
19th Sep 2024
Hayward response finally revealed by education secretary
Plan to scrap S4 exams rejected – but ‘internal and continuous assessment will contribute to a greater percentage of a final grade’, says Jenny Gilruth
Cambridge International students’ university and subject choices revealed
Cambridge survey shows the countries emerging alongside the UK, USA, Canada and Australia as popular destinations for university study
A third of students set to resit English or maths GCSE
Analysis from FFT Education Datalab suggests that numbers having to resit will be similar this year compared with 2022-23