Ofqual’s chief regulator has issued his first formal ‘rebuke’ to an exam board over ‘serious failures’ between 2019 and 2025.

Record numbers of pupils are using excuses such as coughs and hay fever to boost their exam marks. Students can apply for special consideration to gain anywhere from a 1 per cent to 5 per cent mark ...

Regulator admits threat to exam system’s credibility as appeals against GCSE and A-level results soar for second year running The exam regulator, Ofqual, has announced proposals to toughen up the ...

Exam chiefs have had to withdraw 10 years of data after admitting they got figures for extra exam time wildly wrong. In an extraordinary blunder, Ofqual, the exams regulator, overestimated the ...

England's exams regulator, Ofqual, says it was a "fundamental mistake" to think the public would accept an emergency grading system instead of exam results. Chairman Roger Taylor said Ofqual advised ...

Online tests could be an option for GCSE and A-level students next year, Ofqual‘s chair has suggested in the wake of this year’s exam grading fiasco. Roger Taylor said “some form of examination” is ...

Move by regulator could leave thousands of students without university places The government’s attempts to fix this summer’s broken A-level and GCSE results have been thrown into chaos after the exam ...

Ofqual has been threatened with legal action over its handing of a contract to a company for work on this year’s exam grading. Campaigners from the Good Law Project said they would send England’s exam ...