A-levels could be scrapped in an exams overhaul after politicians and education experts warned that the inflation of top A-level grades at yesterday’s results day rendered the results “meaningless”.
Grade inflation-fuelled demand for university places is so high that students are being asked to stay away.
It’s hard not to look back with anxious nostalgia as the fateful date rolls around each year – all the more reason to cut this year’s cohort some slack.
Gavin Williamson, England’s Education Secretary, said pupils “deserve to be rewarded” after a year of disruption.
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