Schools ‘on track’ for new exams
A report into controversial changes to the Scottish secondary school exam system concludes they are on track to be fully implemented on time.
BBC News – Education & Family
VIDEO: Why exams are about to get harder
Free schools, an accelerated move to academies and a planned return to a more rigorous, traditional type of exam are part of government changes for the English education system.
BBC News – Education & Family
Watchdog says exams are easier
GCSE and A-level exams have become easier over the past decade, according to reports published by Ofqual – the exams regulator – yesterday.
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Exams are easier now, report finds
GCSE and A-level exams have become easier over the past decade, according to reports published by Ofqual – the exams regulator – yesterday.
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Science exams easier, Ofqual says
GCSEs and A-levels in geography and science are easier than they were 10 years ago, the exams watchdog Ofqual warns.
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Science exams easier, says Ofqual
GCSEs and A-levels in science and geography are easier than they were 10 years ago, the exams regulator said today.
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Universities to be handed control of A-level exams
Universities would be given powers to decide what should be studied by A-level pupils under plans that would see the Government’s role in setting the exams disappear.
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Teachers admit fiddling results as pupils crumble under pressure of exams
Schoolchildren are “close to breaking point” as they struggle to keep up with extra coaching laid on to push them through exams, teachers warn today.
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Don’t mention dinosaurs: New York raises the bar for politically-correct exams
Parents of children in New York are doubtless grateful to the bureaucrats huddled at the city’s Department of Education, labouring to protect them from the real world beyond the school fence. Heaven forbid that their young minds should be sullied by such notions as crime, death or birthdays.
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Delays to new exams an ‘option’
Schools will be allowed to delay the National 4 and 5 exams, due to replace Standard Grades, for a year, the Scottish government agrees.
BBC News – Education & Family
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