As a result of  wide scale opposition -  from Tory MPs  to the National Education Union;  not to mention the spontaneous protests by young people -  the Westminster government, fearing another fiasco when GCSE results are published on Thursday, has followed its more astute Scottish counterparts and will allow  A-level grades  to be based on … Continue reading Exam grades ‘U-turn’. Why can’t we have teacher assessment all of the time? →

With their students unable to take A-level and GCSE exams this year, schools and colleges were asked ‘to use their professional experience to make a fair and objective judgement of the grade they believed a student would have achieved’.  This meant 'providing a full range of available evidence when they graded students - including non-exam … Continue reading Exam grade ‘mess’ – Gove’s legacy lives on. →