The price index shows overall price increases of 4.5% in 2019, with vocational & technical qualifications increasing on average by 3.3% and general qualifications rising by 5.6%.

Childline has reported a fifty per cent rise in the amount of counselling sessions it has delivered over the last four years.

Qualification regulators in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have launched a joint consultation on proposals to revise the rules governing the qualifications they regulate.

Ofqual is calling on awarding organisations to act on the findings of the report to address the risk of grade inflation in legacy qualifications.

The handbook sets out Ofqual’s general conditions of recognition and the rules it has set for all the qualifications and organisations it regulates, as well as how to comply.

SQA data shows that the number of ‘Higher’ passes has remained stable over the past year despite a fall of more than 2.4% in the S5 and S6 school roll, new figures from the SQA show.

Ofqual is inviting teachers to workshops to offer their perspectives on the assessment of this summer’s reformed GCSEs, A-levels and AS levels.

Forty-six per cent of secondary school parents feel exams are too pressured for their children - only slightly higher than much younger children, at 40 per cent

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