The coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for UK students to take any traditional exams. In England, these include GCSEs, the qualifications that mark the end of compulsory school education, AS ...

The government’s attempt to grade thousands of students by algorithm has been a disaster. Hundreds of student protesters, gathering outside the Department for Education, on August 16 made this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for UK students to take any traditional exams. In England, these include GCSEs, ...

The education secretary has confirmed A-level and GCSE exams will not go ahead this year. Speaking to MPs, Gavin Williamson said teachers would be asked to assess grades again and that that government ...

There will be “no algorithms whatsoever” to determine GCSE and A-Level exam results this year following the chaos of last summer, the Education Secretary has confirmed. Full details of how students ...

More than one in four have achieved the top grades this year (Picture: Reuters) Record numbers of students have received top grades in their GCSEs this year after a Government U-turn meant results ...

Students in the UK didn't sit GCSE or A-level exams this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. An algorithm was instead created by the official exam regulator, Ofqual, to assess students' grades - ...

Taking exams is never easy, but it seems that figuring out results with an algorithm is far more difficult. The UK government have learnt the hard and humiliating way that a badly constructed ...

As the UK moved into lockdown in March, Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, announced that this summer’s GCSE and A level exams would be cancelled. The exams regulator, Ofqual, was instructed ...

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