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Ofqual

August 2024

  • Pupils from the NPTC Group of Colleges in Neath, South Wales, collecting their A-level results on 15 August 2024

    The Guardian view on A-level results day: great expectations have been met

  • A boy and a girl smile while looking at a piece of paper.

    Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

October 2023

  • Pupils sitting an exam

    Italian and Polish GCSEs to go digital in 2026, says England’s largest exam board

    AQA awaits regulator approval for on-screen assessment of reading and listening components

August 2023

  • Students react as they receive their A-level exam results at Harris Westminster Sixth Form in central London.

    Private school students in England twice as likely to earn top A-level grades as state pupils

  • Students in school uniform taking an exam sit at desks spaced apart

    Nearly 100,000 fewer top A-levels this year in grading plan, research suggests

December 2022

  • North London Collegiate school in Harrow

    London private school investigated over ‘blanket’ A or A* grades in 2021 A-levels

  • A classroom of teenage girls taking an exam.

    Surge in GCSE and A-level candidates penalised for ‘malpractice’ in England

September 2022

  • Pupils sitting an exam

    England’s A-level and GCSE grades to fall to pre-Covid levels in 2023

    Some warn about impact on disadvantaged students, who suffered greatest learning loss during pandemic

August 2022

  • Students reading their exam results and texting

    BTec exam board Pearson apologises over results delay

    Some grades not issued two days after they were due, leaving students unable to confirm university places
  • Students at The City of London Academy in Southwark receive their A-Level results

    A-level results 2022: top grades fall but 180,000 get first choice university places – as it happened

    First A-level students to sit exams since 2019 have got their results

    • A-level results day will not be ‘pain-free’, head of Ucas says

    • About 28,000 A-level students who want to go to university ‘have no offer’

    • Fears of clearing chaos as A-level results predicted to be unexpectedly low

June 2022

  • Teacher Writing Maths Problem on Blackboard

    Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner for England

    Rachel de Souza says lack of female role models a bigger issue, after social mobility head said girls would ‘rather not’ do hard maths

May 2022

  • Pupils sitting a pen-and-paper exam

    Pens down: England’s exams regulator exploring online A-levels and GCSEs

    School leaders say online exams could allow them to go ahead in lockdown-style conditions in future

February 2022

  • Students take their GCSE exams in a classroom

    Students and teachers in England decry ‘virtually useless’ exam previews

    Foreign languages are particular source of concern, with teachers expressing ‘huge disappointment’
  • Students sitting an exam

    Return of exams unfair for pupils in deprived areas of England, say heads

    Advance guidance about GCSEs and A-levels too late to ensure fairness, school leaders fear
  • rows of pupils taking an exam

    Labour seeks inquiry into huge jump in top grade A-levels at private schools

    At one school, teachers were reportedly told exams boards had given ‘a nod and a wink’ to grades being inflated

November 2021

  • School students are seen sitting an exam.

    Students in England to sit repeated mock A-levels and GCSEs, Ofqual says

  • School pupils sitting an exam

    English exam boards may be asked to avoid ‘complex language’

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