At one school, teachers were reportedly told exams boards had given ‘a nod and a wink’ to grades being inflated
Labour is calling for an urgent inquiry into the way A-level results were awarded last year, after reports that private schools in England gave out more than eight times as many top grades compared with before the Covid pandemic.
In 2021 the government scrapped exams in England and told teachers to award A-level and GCSE results by assessment. But figures collected by the Sunday Times suggest some schools took undue advantage by massively increasing the rate of top grades awarded to their pupils.
