Pupils protested against the downgrading of A-level results. There are fears that GCSEs will have similar issues on ThursdayA senior Ofqual adviser warned this morning of “another wave” of chaos when schoolchildren receive their GCSE grades on Thursday. Tina Isaacs, a member of the exam regulator’s advisory board, said something needed to be done urgently by the government and Ofqual to “claw back” public confidence over the exam fiasco. Northern Ireland this morning took the decision to give teacher-assessed grades to all its GCSE pupils this Thursday, rather than the grades modified by a computer algorithm. Peter Weir, Northern Ireland’s education secretary, said that he would scrap the algorithm that would have used the past performance of each school

Source: The Times August 17, 2020 11:03 UTC