Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their GCSE results
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Future exam results in England should be permanently pegged to those awarded in 2020 to avoid pupils being hit by a fall in grades awarded, argues a former senior government adviser, as 16-year-olds across the country await their GCSE results.
Sam Freedman, a policy expert and former adviser in the Department for Education, said using the results awarded in 2020 as the new baseline for A-levels and GCSEs would be the fairest way to rebalance grades after two years of systematic acceleration.
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Labour leader Keir Starmer is getting in on the GCSE action this morning.
He calls the Conservatives’ catch-up plan “so inadequate that their own catch-up tsar resigned”
Children lost over 8 weeks of face-to-face teaching this year – and 14 weeks last year.
The Tories’ catch-up plan is so inadequate that their own catch-up tsar resigned.
They need to match Labour’s ambition for our children by backing our £15 billion Children’s Recovery Fund.
