Wales urged to scrap GCSE exams in favour of assessments

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Wales urged to scrap GCSE exams in favour of assessments

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Wales urged to scrap GCSE exams in favour of assessments

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The Welsh exams regulator is recommending GCSE exams be scrapped in favour of assessments next summer, while some A-level papers would remain.

Qualifications Wales said this was the best way of ensuring fairness to pupils, while offering certainty over what will happen in uncertain times.

The Scottish government took a similar move, only keeping exams for Highers - its A-level equivalent.

In England, the government is insisting all national exams will go ahead.

But its exams regulator, Ofqual, is consulting on how GCSE and A-level exams can be modified so they are held fairly next summer.

The Westminster government has already said exams will go ahead, but three weeks later than usual and over a condensed period of three weeks. However, further changes and contingency plans for exams are expected to be announced within weeks.

Missed learning
A second review for Wales, based on interviews with many involved and affected by the disarray of 2020 exams, calls for all GCSE, AS-Levels and A-Level exams to be axed entirely.

The Independent Review Panel wants grades to be awarded on the basis of moderated assessments and for the priority of the series to be the needs of, and fairness to, pupils.

Wales's education minister Kirsty Williams will now consider the issue and is set to announce a decision on 10 November.

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Pupils across the UK have lost months of learning due to the school shutdown in the last academic year, and many have missed periods of schooling this term because of Covid-related reasons.

Teachers' unions and head teachers have called for the Westminster government to draw up a "plan B", in case exams cannot take place.

Lower attendance rates
At a local authority level, England has significant variation in pupil attendance, with attendance levels in secondary schools as low as 61% in Knowsley.

Other areas with high infection rates, also saw low levels of secondary school attendance in October, such as Liverpool, 67%, and Rochdale, 70%.

However, there were also a number of areas with lower virus rates that have very low secondary school attendance rates, including Calderdale, 64%, Kingston-upon-Thames, 68%, and Bracknell Forest, 72%.

In contrast, attendance in secondary schools in October was as high as 94% in Kensington and Chelsea, West Berkshire, and Bath and North East Somerset.

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