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discussed, and how urgent is this? clearly it is notjust this year s co of a level students who have had it hard over the last 18 months, it is all year groups so this will be a keyissue is all year groups so this will be a key issue potentially for many years to come. in terms of next year s exams, consultation hasjust ended looking at things like allowing students to take lists of equations into maths and physics papers perhaps only testing them on a small of the curriculum. longer term, the government is not dying reports they might change the grading system so it is numbers rather than letters, similar to the gcses, but that won t be imminent. looking at the results we had yesterday, there is a difference in opinion on what we can read into them. labour saying the gap is growing between the private and state sector, but the government pointing out if you look at the relative increase in students getting the top grades, comprehensives have fared better than the independent sector an
four gang members have been found guilty of murdering an nhs worker who was stabbed in east london. prosecutors say david gomoh was randomly attacked as he talked on the phone to his girlfriend last april. he staggered back home and died in front of his family. his killers will be sentenced in september. there are calls for an overhaul of the way a levels are assessed and graded in the future, after this year s results saw record numbers given top marks. almost 45% of entries in england, wales and northern ireland were awarded a or a star, fuelling concerns that soaring grades risk undermining confidence in the system. ministers are reported to be looking at replacing the traditional a to e grades with numbers, similar to gcses. sean dilley reports. the ring of success could barely resonate louder for many students across the uk still celebrating