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16 April 2026

Tag: Ofqual

Urgent action needed to save MFL from 鈥榚xtinction鈥�, claims expert

GCSE entries to modern foreign languages continued to fall this year, in a dropoff that could even see some subjects becoming “extinct” in schools, according to one expert. Overall, MFL entries were down by 7.3 per cent this year at around 300,000 in total, while the drop in the population of 16-year-olds in England sat […]

Ofqual wants teacher feedback on summer’s reformed qualifications

Ofqual wants teachers’ feedback on this summer’s reformed GCSEs, AS and A-level qualifications. The exams regulator is inviting teachers to attend workshops to share what went well – and not so well. The workshops, planned for November at the University of Warwick in Coventry, will be the first opportunity for the exam regulator to gather […]

Ofqual ditches plans to regulate ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ subjects

Exams regulator Ofqual is no longer seeking to harmonise the number of pupils achieving top grades across different subjects 鈥� admitting it is too difficult to do. The regulator launched a consultation into the difficulty of GCSE and A-level subjects in December 2015 to address the issue of comparability across examined subjects. One of the […]

Pupils able to request coursework results from 2018

Pupils will be able to request the results of their GCSE and A-level coursework from next year, Ofqual has announced today. The qualifications watchdog had delayed various decisions to the appeal process, due to be introduced last year, so it could consult further on the changes. But the watchdog has announced today pupils will be […]

Errors in exam papers tripled this year, Ofqual report reveals

The number of ‘material errors’ in the design of A level and GCSE exam papers has more than tripled in a year, affecting 323,000 pupils this summer. Ofqual’s report on the 2016 summer exams shows the number of reported assessment material errors rose from 11 in 2015 to 37 this year. The biggest rise was […]

Roger Taylor appointed as new chair of exams regulator Ofqual

Former journalist and Careers and Enterprise Company adviser Roger Taylor will replace Amanda Spielman as the chair of the exams regulator Ofqual, it has been announced. Justine Greening, the education secretary, has appointed Taylor to replace Spielman in January, when she will become the chief inspector of Ofsted. Taylor, already a member of the Ofqual […]

Exam re-mark requests plummet after Ofqual reforms

The number of exam grades that were changed after being re-marked has dropped by 25 per cent this year, with fewer schools and pupils also requesting reviews following sweeping reforms by Ofqual. Figures released this morning by the exams regulator show the total number of reviews of GCSE and A-level marks decreased from 572,400 in […]