Tes podcast: GCSE teacher-assessed grades ‘ignored’

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7th August 2020, 6:41pm

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Tes podcast: GCSE teacher-assessed grades ‘ignored’

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Podcast Aug 8

Join the Tes news team as we discuss our exclusive story that teacher-assessed grades have not been used to calculate the “vast majority” of GCSE results, and 60 per cent of A-level results in large entry subjects, which students receive later this month.

We also talk about how Ofsted will not be checking whether schools are complying with government Covid safety guidelines when it visits them next term.

And we discuss plans at an independent boarding school for staff and pupils to wear Bluetooth bracelets to help with trace and trace in the event of a Covid outbreak.

We end on the story of the pupil from Aberdeenshire whose artwork went viral on social media after he thanked the Scottish Qualifications Authority for his lower-than-expected grade,

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