‘What I’d really welcome is an exam system not based on how many children “fail” to gain certain grades’ – Opinion blog

Geoff Barton, head of King Edward IV School, Suffolk, writes:

“So: from the deepest thickets of another Friday in another half-term break, qualification reform hurtles ever onwards. And this time, according to Ofqual’s Glenys Stacey, it’s monumental.

“This is the biggest change in a generation,” she says. “GCSEs have been around for over 25 years but now we are seeing fresh content, a different structure, high-quality assessment coming in.”

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