Sentences with phrase «gcse qualifications this year»

Ofqual chief executive Glenys Stacey said she had looked carefully at how the exam boards had managed the awarding of all GCSE qualifications this year.

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Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

Chris Keates: «This year's GCSE exam entrants have had to cope with a raft of rushed through and ill - conceived changes to the qualifications system and so today's results are especially commendable».

Commenting on the publishing of GCSE results, Michael Turner, director general of the Joint Council for Qualifications, JCQ, said: «There is significant movement in this year's entries, which impacts on results and creates a very complex national picture.

The first presentation of National 5 (the replacement for Standard Grade, which is sat by 16 year olds and broadly benchmarked to upper level GCSE) took place in May with the results from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) reported in August.

In response to this, Gibb said that GCSE and A-level qualifications required fundamental reform, as for many years exam boards had «competed with each other to appeal to the lowest common denominator in the battle for market share», which resulted in qualifications that assessed «vague thinking skills rather than core subject knowledge».

At the end of the 2017 - 18 academic year, the first students will sit exams for the strengthened GCSE Religious Studies courses, which were introduced in September 2016 as part of the reform of GCSE qualifications.

Chief executive of The Future Leaders Trust, Heath Monk, explained: «The decision to include only first entries, the removal of many vocational qualifications and the use of comparable outcomes to cap GCSE performance have created a situation where this year's results can not be compared to previous years.»

Chris Keates, leader of the NASUWT teachers» union, said this year's GCSE exam entrants had to «cope with a raft of rushed through and ill - conceived changes to the qualifications system and so today's results are especially commendable».

We analysed the extent to which schools have adapted their timetables in response to the incentives that EBacc presents, including for younger year groups not studying towards GCSE qualifications.

Ken McArthur (pictured), a member of the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), a charity that provides guidance to the early years sector, said he welcomed the chance to reinstate functional skills as a qualification and switching back to a GCSE requirement in future might be unnecessary.

The committee recommends the new qualification could be taught over five years, rather than the two required for GCSE.

According to Ofqual's annual qualifications market report, OCR, the third - largest provider of GCSE and equivalent qualifications, awarded 21 per cent fewer certificates last year.

«OCR, the third - largest provider of GCSE and equivalent qualifications, awarded 21 per cent fewer certificates last year... The figures have been ascribed to a sudden loss of interest in iGCSEs.»

Ofqual has faced criticism for much of this year over the pace at which it has dealt with 156 new GCSE, AS and A-level frameworks for first teaching from September, and has implemented a new «slicker» accreditation process for qualifications ahead of 2017.

In the new more difficult qualifications at GCSE, 76 % of pupils achieved a grade four or better in both English and Mathematics; a grade four is at the level of a grade C in previous years.

«For years governments of different political complexions have mistakenly tried to use GCSE qualifications as a measure of both a young person's learning and a school's performance,» said Helen Stringer, vice-principal of the Stephen Perse Foundation school in Cambridge.

With the requirements of the new GCSE, plus the introduction of the new core maths post-16 qualifications, the number of vacancies is set to rise dramatically this year.

According to the Times Educational Supplement, a surge in demand for a vocational qualification called BTEC First has meant it contributed more to league table values last year than all the GCSE English and maths passes put together.