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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

Record numbers of students have received top grades in their GCSEs this year after a Government U-turn meant results were decided solely on teachers’ estimates. Hundreds of thousands of pupils are ...

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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 ...

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 ...