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EPI's Jon Andrews and Robbie Cruikshanks explore 2022's GCSE results. It may feel like we’re back to normal, but pupils’ school experience has been anything but With much of the discussion in the run up to the release of…
By Jon Andrews and Education Policy Institute
Responding to Level 3 Results in 2022, Sam Tuckett, Senior Researcher for Post-16 Education and Skills at the Education Policy Institute, said: "Marking an end to teacher-assessed grades and a return to exam-based assessment, 2022’s cohort of students should be…
By Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a new study on the state of D&T, ‘A spotlight on Design and Technology study in England: trends in subject take up and the teacher workforce’. The research, which is the first study…
By Sam Tuckett
Today [Thursday 30 September] the Department for Education and Ofqual have published their plans for next year's GCSE and A level exams, including their approach to grading. Responding to the plans for grading next year, David Robinson, Director of Post-16…
By Education Policy Institute
Students have had an incredibly difficult school year, working towards their GCSEs during a global pandemic – we must congratulate them for their achievements today. Schools and colleges should also be commended for the remarkable work they’ve done to deliver…
By Jon Andrews
Two years of immense uncertainty for A level students finally ended today as they received their results. However, whilst individual students will, rightly, be focused on their next destination, today provides only a partial picture of what the pandemic has…
By David Robinson and Sam Tuckett
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This new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that the four UK nations have begun to adopt increasingly different approaches to education policy after twenty years of devolution. The research, which is…
By Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute has published an evidence review on curriculum policy in leading education nations, commissioned by Patrick Wall, founder of edpol. Curriculum policy in England has been characterised by frequent change in recent decades. In order to identify…
By Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published its recommendations on how the government should approach GCSE and A level exams in England in 2021, including a back-up plan in the event that exams are cancelled again in the summer. …
By Education Policy Institute
I know that it is my job to be evidenced based and data driven but I refuse to believe that March wasn’t at least five years ago now. For those working in the country’s schools and colleges it may seem…
By Jon Andrews
Commenting on today's decision by the government to revert to centre assessed grades (CAG) for both A levels and GCSEs, David Laws, Executive Chairman of the Education Policy Institute (EPI), said: "Given the multiple problems that we have experienced with…
By Education Policy Institute
Commenting on the options for the government and Ofqual, ahead of GCSE results, David Laws, Executive Chairman of the Education Policy Institute (EPI), said: “It’s clear this week that England faces a crisis of confidence in its exam grading, which…
By Education Policy Institute
