Anger over schools warning about exam result changes A HEAD TEACHER has strongly criticised a letter to schools from the exams regulator warning they could see differences in their GCSE and A-level results this year following major reforms to the exams. Ofqual said there is likely to be “variability” in grades this summer following significant changes to the qualifications. Chris Walsh, the head at Boston Spa School said this was an admission that Government reforms had meant it was impossible for the regulator to protect the integrity of the exams. He also said he feared a focus on controlling ‘grade inflation’ would be the deciding factor in pupils’ results rather than the quality of their work. He said: “Ofqual’s job is to maintain the integrity of qualifications from one year to the next for sake of pupils. I see this letter as an admission from Ofqual that the scale of the change to exams that have been pushed through has meant that it is impossible for them to do this.” Mr Walsh was an outspoken critic of Ofqual during the results row of 2012 which saw exam boards changing the grade boundaries during the academic year in English GCSEs amid concerns about the potential for a sharp increase [...] leedsinnews/anger-over-schools-warning-about-exam-result-changes/
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:15:31 +0000
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