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News from the TES
English results ‘unfairly marked down’, say headteachers
- School leaders claim grade boundaries manipulated to reduce number of C grades
GCSE results: grade inflation comes to a halt for the first time in the qualification’s history
- Twenty-four years of continuous improvement ends
GCSE overhaul: reform in haste, repent at leisure
- Brian Lightman warns against incremental, hasty changes to the National Curriculum
It’s time to teach business leaders a lesson in constructive criticism
- Businesses: stop bashing schools and start collaborating with them, says Gerard Kelly
'You never get to the point when you are not nervous'
- Results day is a trying time for teachers as well as students
Slow down or say goodbye to 'world class', Gove told
- Rushing new 'O levels' will harm quality, exam boards caution
- Pupils will be ranked nationally as part of the new O-level-style qualifications
New curriculum will allow 'extreme' freedom
- It won't be abolished but it will be 'very, very short', says Gove's team
O level plan: revolutionary for sure...
- …but has Mr Gove really thought this through?
Who does Gove think his O levels are for?
- GCSEs may need reforming, but not at the expense of hope, says Bethan Marshall
Please reconsider your disastrous O-level plans, Mr Gove
- GCSEs are enlightened qualifications – and Francis Gilbert says that as a harsh critic of the current qualifications
O-level plans spark fears of 'backward step' for FE
- Pupils seen to have 'failed' would end up in colleges, critics argue
External links
- Find information and advice for teachers and careers professionals to help channel the aspirations of young people
- TES columnist Geoff Barton discusses the odd case of the falling English GCSE results on his blog.
