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Students Plan Mass Legal Action over GCSE Results
t emerged this week that so far 180 pupils have joined legal action being brought against the exams regulator Ofqual by schools and councils. The students are seeking to force a regrade of their June exam papers, on the basis that the grade boundaries were made a full 10 marks higher than those for exams taken by their peers in January.
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GCSEs to be Replaced with English Baccalaureate
Amidst controversy surrounding the marking and standards of GCSE papers this summer, Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the GCSE exams are going to be replaced by a qualification called the English Baccalaureate Certificate.
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New College of Humanities Fails to Attract Students as it Opens this Term
Founder philosopher A C Grayling insisted that there were many students and parents who would see their way to paying these fees for what would be the best education in the country. However, just three weeks before the university is due to open, the college has only recruited a third of the students it intended to for their first year.
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UK Universities Among the best in the World
Results published this week rank UK universities as some of the best in the world. Cambridge, which came top last year, was ranked second in the global league table, along with UCL, Oxford and Imperial which took fourth, fifth and sixth places respectively.
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New Qualification for Athletes
A new qualification for athletes has been designed, based around the International Baccalaureate. The initiative has come after athletes spoke out during the Olympics, saying that they do not have the academic qualifications they require for life after a career in sports.
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Exam boards let Students down over GCSE English Grades
It was revealed that exam boards took the decision to raise the grade boundaries between January and June, meaning that many students who took the exam in June were left at a disadvantage.
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Welsh GCSE Students get Re-Grades
This week Welsh education minister Leighton Andrews ordered the WJEC exam board to regrade GCSE English exams taken in Wales, stating that the students should not suffer from the injustice of the exam marking crisis.
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Survey Reveals Number of Children Reading for fun has Fallen
The National Literacy Trust has published figures that suggest that only three in ten children read for fun, a figure down from four in ten in 2005.
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Collapsed free school projects 'wasted at least £2.3m'
Education Secretary Michael Gove has been asked to come clean on how much money has been spent on collapsed free schools projects in England. Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg says at least £2.3m was spent on three projects alone, two of which were abandoned and one which has 68 pupils.He claims the Department for Education is yet to give details on a further three projects which have foundered.
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