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A-level and GCSE grade inflation 'inevitable in English system' | Exams


Teachers have described having to fill in multiple forms for every assessment of each pupil as part of a system of checks and balances to provide evidence and justify grades awarded. Some schools have also decided to deliver exams or mocks to help inform the grades.
“The form-filling is seemingly endless,” said a teacher at a north-west London secondary school whose students will be assessed based on mock exams in March and other tests this month. “The stress at the moment for me is off the scale. The workload is unbearable at times.”
Experts have warned, however, that grade inflation is inevitable even with additional levels of scrutiny promised by the qualifications regulator Ofqual, and they say another year of inflated results will make it harder to return to exams pegged to pre-pandemic results next year. ....

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Sittingbourne teachers offered Covid vaccine


MP Gordon Henderson steps in after Sittingbourne teachers offered Covid vaccine
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Updated: 16:08, 28 January 2021
MP Gordon Henderson has stepped in after some school teachers in Kent were offered the coronavirus vaccine ahead of others.
Invitations were emailed to schools in Sittingbourne yesterday asking for teachers mobile telephone numbers so they could attend The Chestnuts Surgery in East Street today to have a jab.
The vaccine is currently only available to certain groups - and that does not include teachers
According to Government policy only those in the first phase of the priority group roll out, such as those aged 80 and over and frontline health workers, are entitled to the vaccine at the moment. ....

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Education secretary Gavin Williamson says secondary schools reopening to be delayed


Education secretary Gavin Williamson says secondary schools reopening to be delayed
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Updated: 18:49, 30 December 2020
Secondary schools in Kentwill not be reopening as planned next week, the Education Minister has announced.
Education secretary Gavin Williamson. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Williamson said that exam year groups– namely year 11 and 13 – will now be returning on January 11, with all other year groups coming in on January 18.
The delay is to ensure an ambitious mass testing programme is in place for the pupils on their return.
Mr Williamson said: We have already announced our intention for a staggered return for secondary-age pupils and those in colleges. ....

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