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Tag: GCSEs

Seventeen hours to decide my future: why A-levels need to be scrapped

15th January 202115th January 2021Janita Hussain

Image Description: students sitting exams in an exam hall  News of the cancellation of GCSEs and A-Levels in England came unexpectedly to students this year who, up until this point, had been emphatically assured that these would go ahead as planned. This decision came almost one month after Wales and Scotland also called off examinations. […]

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For Party and Country: Williamson must go

17th August 202022nd August 2020Maddy Ross

Image description: a student holding an open book against her face. Error upon error has marked this year’s exam season. Prioritising avoiding grade inflation rather than fairness led to A Level chaos, and then a sudden change to BTec results caused widespread confusion: it seems that every consideration was made other than for the welfare […]

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Private schools: Once again taking from the poor and giving to the rich

11th January 201915th November 2020Grace Davis

If at first you don’t succeed, ask Daddy to pay for you to take easier exams. At least, this has been the case for several GCSE students at independent schools which are opting to take the easier IGCSEs over the more rigorous and difficult GCSEs which have been introduced during the Conservative government’s latest round […]

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