GCSE results: Why grades don't tell the full story
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Niall Paterson explores the future for GCSEs on this episode – and asks why where you live can affect the grades you get.
He speaks to two headteachers - Becky Arnold at Framingham Earl high school near Norwich, and Farhan Adam at Crown Hills Community College in Leicester who was awarded "headteacher of the year" in 2023.
Plus, Louis Hodge of the research organisation Education Policy Institute (EPI) joins Niall to discuss the "disadvantage gap" in today's GCSE results.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:00.6 | Welcome back to the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:02.4 | Neil Patterson here and glad, certainly not for the first time, that I never have to set another exam as long as I live. |
| 1:10.2 | It is, of course, GCSE results day in |
| 1:12.7 | England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Scotland having a separate system. And this cohort of |
| 1:17.8 | students had it particularly rough. They enjoyed just one term of secondary school before COVID |
| 1:23.3 | hit, one solitary term of normality. And yeah, we have certainly covered the range of issues that |
| 1:29.0 | stemmed from that many times already on this podcast. But as the head of the exam regulator |
| 1:33.7 | Ofquil recently said, exams don't create issues. They expose them. And there were plenty of |
| 1:40.4 | problems even before the pandemic. Do get in touch with your thoughts. |
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