News updates: government facing escalating pressure over testing crisis ahead of PMQS, as hospitals plug holes in system Schoolchildren should be next in line for Covid tests, says Buckland Families
Grammar schools in England will have to ensure their 11-plus entrance exams are accessible to disabled pupils, after a legal ruling found a visually impaired child suffered discrimination when he
Gavin Williamson was offered evidence of serious flaws in the grading of this year’s exams two weeks before A-level results were published in England, the Guardian has been told. But
“Do you take responsibility for what happened? Because last week my colleague on this programme, Louise Minchin, asked you several times if you had considered your resignation and you didn’t
The row over A-level and GCSE results has intensified after the chair of the exams regulator in England accused the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) of making comments that led to
1. Don’t expect things to run perfectly from the first day Parents across Scotland have highlighted various difficulties, including bubbles preventing friends from mixing, canteens not serving hot food to
Headteachers are considering challenging unusually high GCSE results, accusing the algorithm of injecting grade inflation as pupils around the country celebrate and the government’s exams fiasco continues to snowball. Heads
8.26am EDT 08:26 Travellers told to keep tabs on quarantine list amid Croatia concerns The government has urged holidaymakers to “keep an eye out” for changes to the travel quarantine
After all end-of-year exams were scrapped, students in England with offers of university places were awaiting their A-level results with more trepidation than usual. Rather than being judged by their
Follow the latest on the coronavirus outbreak in the UK as the government faces pressure over the A-levels and GCSEs exam grading crisis in England and its plans to scrap