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Cancelled exams: Consultation to probe using 'externally set tasks or papers' to help teacher-assessed grading

Examinations & Qualifications

'A dereliction of duty' – Schools must wait to find out how Covid-hit exams will be awarded

Government policy

League tables will not include 2021 exam results

Performance tables

Staff wellbeing: Marking and lesson-planning identified as toxic workload

Teaching staff

Exams 2021: Contingency plans not to be published until November

Government policy

Exams 2021: DfE is still 'some way off' a plan

Government policy

GCSE learning gap stands at 22.7 months for the most persistently disadvantaged

Looked-after children

'Little more than tinkering' – proposals for 2021 exams revealed

Examinations & Qualifications

GCSEs & A levels: Call for local hubs to help ease exams burden in October and November

Government policy

Frustration at lack of consultation over DfE's £1bn catch-up programme

Pupil Premium initiatives

Some clarity over what 'face-to-face' support in years 10 and 12 might look like

Legislation and guidance

Scottish schools shut until at least August; Wales and Northern Ireland taking similar paths

Government policy