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Majority of teachers lack training to support deaf pupils – report

Nearly 9 in 10 teachers say they have received inadequate training to support pupils who are deaf, a new study shows. In total, 86% of teachers in a poll of 5,332 primary and secondary school teachers by the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) ...

18 Mar 2022 at 01:55

Heads say using SATs as part of Ofsted judgment on curriculum makes ‘no sense’

Headteachers have criticised the decision for Ofsted to use schools’ 2022 SATs and GCSE results as part of its judgment of curriculum impacts. The DfE announced on Friday that it will not publish KS2 SATs in league tables but that it will produce ...

25 Mar 2022 at 16:55

New crackdown on GCSE questions with middle-class bias

Exam boards have been given new guidance to make their papers more accessible. Tests should use clearer language, a clear and consistent layout, and “source material, context, images and colour in ways that do not disadvantage students”, ...

12 May 2022 at 15:25

Over half of teachers want to adopt online exams

New polling has revealed that over half of teachers would adopt online exams now if they were available in their subject. A survey by exam board Pearson Edexcel of 1,100 teachers revealed that 51% would use onscreen assessment now if it ...

12 May 2022 at 01:25

Raising average GCSE scores will ‘disadvantage the disadvantaged’ – Lord Baker

One of the architects of GCSEs has criticised Government plans in the Schools White Paper, published on Monday, to raise the average GCSE score in maths and English from 4.5 to 5 by 2030. The White Paper said pupils who were falling ...

30 Mar 2022 at 13:25

Covid study aids for GCSEs scrapped for 2023

Exams regulator Ofqual has announced that exams will return to normal for the 2022/23 academic year, with no adjustments for pupils to accommodate the impact of the pandemic. For the 2022 cohort, the Department for Education said ...

10 May 2022 at 15:55

Decline in design and technology could narrow social mobility in engineering

The decline in the number of pupils studying design and technology (D&T) could be preventing children from poorer backgrounds becoming engineers, a new report suggests. A study from the Sutton Trust and the Bridge Group ...

23 Feb 2022 at 01:25

Exams must move on from ‘unsafe sweaty sports halls’, say headteachers

Headteachers have said that assessment methods should move beyond crowds of pupils sitting papers in “sweaty” sports halls. Pepe Di’Iasio, president of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said that ...

11 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Schools being ‘thrown to the wolves’ over league table decision

Schools are being “thrown to the wolves” over a decision to publish GCSE performance tables for 2022, headteachers will warn on Friday. Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of School and College ...

11 Mar 2022 at 01:25

GCSE and A-level grade appeals increased almost five-fold in 2021

The number of pupil appeals to change their GCSE and A-level grades surged last year to nearly five times the number submitted in 2020. In total, 17,490 GCSE, AS and A-level grades were challenged by pupils in ...

27 Jan 2022 at 13:25

Government exams chief: 2022 test changes will not advantage more able pupils

Changes to 2022 GCSE and A-level exams will not make them easier for more able pupils, the head of the Government exam regulator has said. Because of the disruption caused to pupils’ learning by the pandemic, ...

28 Jan 2022 at 12:55

Government exams chief: 2022 exam changes will not advantage more able pupils

28 Jan 2022 at 12:25

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