News
New plans for GCSEs
GCSEs are the latest strand of the education system to be restructured and reformed – both by the Department for Education and by Ofqual (the regulator of qualifications, examinations and assessments in England). In June both bodies ran open consultations on their plans. This month they reported on the resulting decisions.
Secondary school accountability measures
You may remember the many, many consultations on education reform that the government ran over the summer. The responses and resulting policy are now slowly being published; last month we had the new National Curriculum, this month it is the new secondary school performance measures.