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Students in the UK receive their GCSE results today. Now, it’s 6.26am and I haven’t seen any reports of results but here are my predictions: increases in the number of students receiving five or more ‘good’ passes and a decrease in the number of students leaving without any qualifications. This will then be said to be a good thing by the government and evidence of ‘grade inflation’ by everyone else…
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And hopefully some acknowledgement of the fantastic job that teachers do???
Come on Louise - this is England we’re talking about. There’ll be more arguments that teachers are ‘teaching to the test’, not that teaching is getting better!
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