English schools ‘unfairly penalised in rematch of exams’. The education committee says the exams regulator should have anticipated the problemsA-level and GCSE students in England were unfairly penalised in last summer’s exam remarking, with those at state schools more likely to be disadvantaged than their priva…
The mother who had to send her child to school during lockdown because she is a ‘key worker’. Mumsnet user Peacheypie has revealed how she’s feeling about sending her child back to school during lockdown, after she was told by her employer that she is a ‘key worker’. Taking to the online forum, the mother wrote: ‘I am a teacher but have been told that I …
GCSE results day 2020: parents react with fury as Ofqual calls for calm. As students receive their GCSE results, parents have taken to Twitter to express their anger at the ‘disaster’ of Ofqual’s algorithms used to calculate grades. One said: ‘If you don’t want to start an uprising then you would be wise to recalculate the algorithm.’ Another said: ‘A…