Secondary
Monday
GCSEs: National Reference 91¶¶Òõts to show Covid ‘impact’
91¶¶Òõt will not be used to inform GCSE grading but ‘will provide important evidence about the impact of lost learning’
Call to cancel qualifications for students staying on
Cancelling qualifications for S4 students – apart from those leaving school – would alleviate pressure, says union
Friday
IGCSEs 2021: Tens of thousands demand exam cancellation
International students say cancelling IGCSE and IA-level exams in the UK but going ahead with them overseas is unfair
International Baccalaureate ‘algorithm defies logic’
Head compares IB’s approach of using historical data to allocate grades to the flawed GCSE algorithm of 2020
Exclusive: Fears teachers will be ‘vilified’ over GCSEs
The ‘whole burden of last year’s fiasco’ is being placed ‘on an unsuspecting workforce’, warns Chartered College chief
Thursday
Exams 2021: DfE won’t regulate to stop overseas exams
DfE says it will not prohibit exam boards from setting exams overseas – although most have been cancelled already
GCSEs 2021 a terrible tangle, says DfE’s Ofqual adviser
Sir Jon Coles, who advised Ofqual on 2021 GCSEs and A levels, says the plan risks an outcome ‘much worse than last year’
GCSEs 2021: Questions may come from defunct exam papers
GCSE and A-level students could sit questions from pre-reform exam specifications because of a lack of past papers
GCSEs 2021: Grading won’t be pegged to any other year
Tethering 2021 GCSE and A level results to a certain year would ‘probably entail the use of some form of algorithm’ says Williamson
GCSEs and A levels 2021: Coursework to go unmoderated
Coursework marking will not be moderated by boards, despite 55% of Ofqual consultation responses arguing it should be
GCSEs 2021: No minimum requirement for content studied
A-level and GCSE students will not have to have covered a minimum percentage of the syllabus to get grades this year
