As the UK moved into lockdown in March, Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, announced that this summer’s GCSE and A level exams would be cancelled. The exams regulator, Ofqual, was instructed ...

Ofqual’s standardisation marking system resulted in “rampant” inflation of grades for niche subjects such as Latin and classics, a charity has said, while state schools and colleges were unfairly hit ...

The students who stood outside the Department for Education this summer protesting the Ofqual algorithm did something few before have managed: they made algorithms political. They showed the unfair ...

Roger Taylor defended his organisation’s response to the exams crisis, which saw calculated grades replaced with teacher predictions last-minute following a backlash. Speaking to members of the ...

It was a "fundamental mistake" to believe a controversial algorithm initially used for A-level and GCSE results would "ever be acceptable to the public", the head of the exams watchdog has said. Roger ...

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The former head of England’s exam regulator has said that last year’s grading fiasco was caused by “human-decision making” rather than a controversial algorithm. Thousands of A-level results were ...

Taking exams is never easy, but it seems that figuring out results with an algorithm is far more difficult. The UK government have learnt the hard and humiliating way that a badly constructed ...

England’s exam regulator “chose to carry on” despite concerns over a controversial algorithm used to calculate grades this year, the education select committee has said. Ofqual pushed ahead with the ...

The head of Ofqual Sally Collier has resigned (Picture: Camera Press/Francesco Guidicini) Sally Collier, the head of exams regulator Ofqual, has resigned. She will be replaced as chief regulator by ...