If we can do without GCSEs and university exams now, why go back? | Simon Jenkins

Abandon this addiction to assessment. For one year at least, let the class of 2020 be assumed to have passed with honour

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The exam season is upon us, or rather is not upon us. Its pens and papers, its clocks, marks, adjustments and grades are as dust. There are some blessings to Covid-19, and one may yet be to liberate education from the dictatorship of “the test”.

The government has already abandoned this year’s GCSEs and A-levels, replac...

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Published on May 21, 2020 09:00
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