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  • The Great CAG Car Crash – What Went Wrong?

    12 August 2020 by Dennis Sherwood

    This blog is the latest in a series by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the 2020 results round for HEPI. As a result of the public uproar following the ‘adjusting down’ of around 124,000 centre assessment grades (CAGs) – about one-quarter of all grades submitted – Scotland’s Education Secretary, John Swinney, has now binned ‘statistical standardisation”…

  • A-Levels 2020: what students and parents need to know

    10 August 2020 by Rob Cuthbert

    This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management, University of the West of England. You can find Rob on Twitter @RobCuthbert. As A-Level results day (Thursday, 13 August) looms, there is still widespread misunderstanding among students and parents about how grades have been determined.…

  • SUNDAY READING: Ofqual’s Summer Symposium, Slide 12: Examiner’s Report

    26 July 2020 by Dennis Sherwood

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the goings on at Ofqual in relation to this year’s public exam results for HEPI. This is the ninth in the series as we rapidly approach the release of the GCSE, AS and A level grades in the…

  • Halfon right: Ofqual has more to do

    14 July 2020 by Dennis Sherwood & Rob Cuthbert

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood and Rob Cuthbert. Dennis runs the Silver Bullet Consultancy and is a frequent contributor to the HEPI blog. Rob Cuthbert is an independent academic consultant and Emeritus Professor of higher education management. @RobCuthbert On the 11th July, The Education Select Committee, chaired…

  • Have teachers been set up to fail?

    18 June 2020 by Dennis Sherwood

    This new blog has been written by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the story of this year’s school exams for HEPI. Friday, 12 June was the deadline for schools to submit their ‘centre assessment grades’ and rank orders for this year’s GCSE, AS and A-level students, and over the…

  • No test is better than a bad test

    1 June 2020 by Dennis Sherwood

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood. Dennis has previously written on this years’ school exams and Ofqual, among other topics. I write this having just read an article in The Guardian about the condemnation by doctors for the ‘shroud of secrecy’ thrown by ministers and Public Health England…

  • WEEKEND READING: This year’s school grades – Ofqual’s consultation

    18 April 2020

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. Dennis has produced much of HEPI’s past output about A-Levels, including 1 school grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? and Trusting teachers is the best way to deliver this years’ exam results – and those in future…