Assessment
The latest news and analysis on exams in the UK, including key dates, timetables, results and statistics for Sats, GCSEs and A levels
Thursday
18th Aug 2022
A-level results reaction: ‘Education recovery is not done’
In response to this year’s A-level results, experts call on Ofqual to add a further stage to its two-step return to pre-pandemic grading levels – amid fears of a widening disadvantage gap
A levels 2022: English lit drops out of top 10 most popular subjects
Entries for English literature A level fell by 9.4 per cent this year, new figures have shown – after a call for government action to ‘stop the spiral of decline’
A levels 2022: Top grades fall at private schools
Despite the fall, independent schools still received the highest proportion of A* grades
A-level 2022 results: An imperfect system - but the fairest one we have
Sam Freedman reflects on the A-level exam results for 2022 and why, when all is said and done, the upheavals of the pandemic years show why exams remain the fairest way to assess all students
A-level results 2022: Regional top grade gap wider after pandemic
The gap between the regions with the largest and smallest proportions of top A-level grades has increased since the last set of exams in 2019
Northern Ireland A-level results day 2022: key trends
We look at the latest A-level results in Northern Ireland, after the first full set of summer exams since 2019
Wales A-level results day 2022: key trends
It is the first time Welsh students have sat external A-level exams since 2019 – so how did they do?
A levels 2022: Results at a glance
The latest A-level results broken down by gender, subject and grades
Wednesday
17th Aug 2022
Scottish education’s strength? It shapes hearts and minds
Attainment is important but so are ‘the kind of citizens you are creating’, says government adviser and Canadian educator Dr Avis Glaze
A-level results: Why we should all have faith in the system
Teachers should go into A-level results day tomorrow with confidence that the system will work for this year’s cohort, says this head-turned-university leader
A levels 2022: ‘Severe concern’ over continued decline in English entries
ASCL warn that the decline has been influenced by the ‘grind of memorising large amounts of traditional texts’ at GCSE