An algorithm used to calculate exam results in England risks unfairly punishing poorer pupils, politicians have warned. The system was introduced when school exams were cancelled due to the COVID-19 ...

Unable to take their exams during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and with schools shut back in March, students received their grades for an exam-free year last week for Scottish Qualifications ...

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced the decision just days after the “cast-iron” guarantee that there would be no U-turn. [Read: Algorithm that determines school exam results risks ‘baking ...

A student is threatening to sue the UK government over an algorithm used to determine the final grades of school leavers in the absence of formal examinations during the pandemic. Curtis Parfitt-Ford, ...