GCSE and A-level students will learn tomorrow how they will be graded this summer, Michael Gove saidHead teachers and education experts today criticised the decision to cancel this summer’s GCSEs and A-level exams while families were left in the dark about what will replace them. Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, faced calls to resign after Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, said exams would be scrapped but the government revealed no plans for what would happen instead. Some head teachers welcomed the decision coming now, rather than at the 11th hour, while others said ministers had been too hasty to abandon exams because no alternatives would be fairer. Teacher assessment is likely to be used instead of exams but this will need to be moderated to prevent grade inflation. An algorithm that was used to do this last year led to

Source: The Times January 05, 2021 12:06 UTC