M.E.N. Exam Results Survey: Tell us what you think about this year's A level and GCSE results

Exam results are in, and what better way to celebrate the incredible achievement of that Very Clever Person in your life than plastering their success across the front of their favourite newspaper? After all they’ve been through, let’s make Lockdown results extra-special for them – whether they’re getting revised A-level results, GCSEs or BTECs.

local schools. Despite best intentions, a situation was created where an unacceptable number of our young people felt trapped and that education was not a route out of poverty.The Scottish Government listened to the exemplary campaigning of pupils, their parents and teachers, and are now putting it right.

hereBut some institutions have already raised concerns about a lack of capacity, staffing, accommodation and facilities if numbers increase – especially at a time when universities are trying to be Covid-secure.Students who have now secured their first choice following the government’s U-turn may be asked to defer their place by a year if there is no space left on their preferred course.The government said students who have accepted an offer will be able to release themselves if they have

exam results for English pupils. The shambles comes one week after the Scottish Government became the first of four UK administrations to bow to mounting pressure and scrap downgraded results.

The Guardian). “The pandemic has created circumstances no one could have ever imagined or wished for.

nearly 40 per cent of A level grades  in England were downgraded leaving some students' devastated with calls for a review and education secretary Gavin Williamson to resign.

after thousands of pupils in England had their results downgraded.Protesters gathered outside Downing Street on Friday chanting for Mr Williamson to be sacked, a call echoed by some opposition MPs.And the Royal Statistical Society has written to the Office of Statistics Regulation to ask for a review into whether “the models and processes adopted by the qualification regulators did in fact achieve quality and trustworthiness”.But Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted he has confidence in Mr

Manchester College are still waiting for their exam results - 24 hours after they were due to be released.

Boris Johnson has defended education secretary Gavin Williamson after he came under fire over pupils having their A-Level results downgraded.The Prime Minister, speaking during a visit to Northern Ireland, told reporters that this year's results are “good” and are “dependable for employers”.“Let’s be in no doubt about it, the exam results that we’ve got today are robust," Mr Johnson said."They’re good, they’re dependable for employers, but already I think that there’s a record number of

The minority who saw their entries adjusted up will keep the higher grade.MSP Colin Smyth, said: “The restoration of pupils’ achievement based on the professional judgement of teachers who know them is a victory for fairness, for common sense and above all for those young people who refused to take this injustice lying down.”

hereResults will be based on teachers’ predictions and statistical modelling.Teachers were asked to predict the grades they thought pupils would have achieved had exams gone ahead, based on coursework, the result of mock exams, and homework.Schools were also requested to rank pupils in each subject.But Northern Ireland’s exams body, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment, said students will have a broader scope to appeal their A level and GCSE grades.Student approaches to

Paedo teacher jailed for abuse“What does that teach a student who wants to break out of the poverty they may be in? How does that encourage pupils to try harder.”South Lanarkshire Liberal Democrat group leader, Robert Brown, asked for the matter to be discussed at the council’s next executive committee.Councillor Brown said South Lanarkshire’s pupils “deserve the full support of their council”.

Mock exam grades will be able to be used to allow GCSE and A-level students in England to progress to university, college and employment, the government is set to announce.Unions have been calling on the Government to follow Scotland’s lead in scrapping moderated grades after the downgrading of more than 124,000 results was reversed.Schools held mock exams before they were forced to close to try and control the spread of Covid-19.The results of those tests will now carry the same weight as the

Rutherglen Reformer wants to hear about how this fiasco has affected you – and, possibly, your future.