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Assessing pupils under exam conditions avoids plagiarism in age of AI – minister

The ‘dangers’ ‘of generative artificial intelligence in education need to be addressed, the schools minister has said.

The Independent UK

School leavers face competition for university places amid population growth

Students have been told to ‘thoroughly consider’ all options available ahead of A-level results day next month.

The Independent UK

Students ‘paying hundreds’ for fake GCSE and A level exam papers sold on TikTok

Exam regulator warns pupils of disqualification risk if caught cheating

The Independent UK

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Some Covid measures stay in place as GCSEs and A Levels begin

Ofqual says some 'protections' remain in place

Wales Online

'They're designed to be challenging': Government defends SATs tests after some pupils reduced to tears

Hundreds of parents and teachers have complained

Manchester Evening News

Sats exams ‘designed to be challenging’, DfE tells aggrieved parents and teachers

Ministry responds to reports of children upset and teachers baffled by reading test for 10- and 11-year-olds

The Guardian - UK

Government defends ‘challenging’ Sats reading paper following complaints

The Department for Education said Sats are meant to be ‘challenging’ after complaints that a paper was too difficult.

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Teachers and parents hit out after Sats exams leave pupils ‘in tears’

Hundreds of people have complained online about Wednesday’s Year 6 reading exam.

The Independent UK

Children left in tears after SATS as teachers and parents slam 'really hard' test

After headteacher Kerry Forrester wrote to her MP demanding "inappropriate" SATs tests for 10 and 11-year-old children are scrapped, more young children have been left in floods of tears

Daily Mirror

Teachers and parents hit out after Sats exams leave pupils ‘in tears’

Hundreds of people have complained online about Wednesday’s Year 6 reading exam.

The Independent UK

Parents and schools warned GCSE and A Level results in England will plunge in 2023

Head of Ofqual in bombshell letter to school head teachers saying many students will get lower grades than they hope for as marking returning to pre pandemic rules

Wales Online

Exam grades are going ‘back to normal’. But for our stressed-out teenagers, normal is a long way off

As with Covid-19, so with the cost of living crisis: it’s the most vulnerable children who will pay the highest price, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

ChatGPT warning to schools over amid fears over use in coursework

A think tank has said "the advent of ChatGPT is a significant threat to the integrity of formal assessments"

Nottingham Post

Schools warned 'virtually impossible' to tell if pupils use ChatGPT in coursework

Education think tank EDSK warned that teachers face the 'virtually impossible task' of determining whether pupils have done their own coursework or relied on AI models to help them cheat

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Coursework ‘will deliver less trustworthy grades than exams’ in age of ChatGPT

Detecting whether a student’s work is their own has now become ‘a virtually impossible task’ for teachers and exam boards, think tank says.

Wales Online

Fears over ChatGPT could see pupils doing coursework under exam conditions

However Ofqual’s chief regulator said 'we’re not seeing the end of desks and pens and paper anytime soon'

The Independent UK

Pupils should do coursework under exam conditions amid ChatGPT fears, heads told

The examined approach is ‘more important than ever because you’ve got that integrity of whose work it is’, Ofqual’s chief regulator said.

Daily Mirror

Teachers desperate for help over AI chatbot writing entire essays for cheating students

A new artificial intelligence chatbox called ChatGPT is capable of answering questions and writing essays, which has left UK teachers calling for guidance on how to stop the spread of cheating

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The Guardian - UK

Surge in GCSE and A-level candidates penalised for ‘malpractice’ in England

Possession of mobile phones and smartwatches the biggest single cause for sanctions

The Independent UK

BTec results delay ‘left pupils feeling like second-class citizens’, MP suggests

Chairman of the education committee Robert Halfon was critical of exam boards after thousands did not receive their results on August 18.

The Guardian - UK

England’s A-level and GCSE grades to fall to pre-Covid levels in 2023

Some warn about impact on disadvantaged students, who suffered greatest learning loss during pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Private schools in England accused of ‘gaming the system’ on lockdown exam results

High GCSE and A-level grades awarded by teachers at independent schools in the pandemic fell dramatically after public exams

The Guardian - UK

Calls for watchdog to investigate delays to BTec results

Further education and sixth form colleges ask why thousands of students have not received grades from exam board Pearson

The Independent UK

Call for urgent schools recovery plan as GCSE results see north-south gap grow

Schools North East said this year’s results can be seen as a ‘map’ of the impact of the pandemic on students and schools.

The Independent UK

GCSE grades fall from Covid record high in crackdown on grade inflation

Both pass rate and percentage of top grade drops

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