GCSE and A-amount pupils in England will not be requested to sit exams in summer months 2021

It will come right after Michael Gove advised finish-of-12 months exams would be scrapped in favour of substitute styles of evaluation next the new lockdown.

On Monday night, the Division for Instruction (DfE) said: “There is recognition that this is an anxious time for students who have been doing work difficult toward their exams.”

“The authorities place is that we will not be asking college students to sit GCSE and A-levels.” 

The DfE said they will perform with Ofqual, England’s examination regulator, to seek the advice of on how to award grades to pupils this calendar year. 

Exams were being cancelled past calendar year above coronavirus and a new grading system established up, awarding pupils with calculated grades. Pupils were being authorized to consider their primary instructor predicted marks, adhering to backlash about the system.

On Monday, Mr Gove was requested on BBC Radio 4’s These days programme irrespective of whether A-concentrations and GCSEs in England have been cancelled for the second year in a row, and replied: “Certainly.”

The former education secretary explained: “We will be placing in area choice arrangements in order to make guaranteed that the difficult work that learners have put in to acquire understanding and build their abilities is appropriately assessed, recognised and awarded.”

He also advised Sky Information that Gavin Williamson, the current education and learning secretary, will handle parliament on Wednesday to update MPs on how pupils will be assessed at the conclude of the calendar year, adhering to even further disruption to their finding out.

Under England’s new lockdown, faculties will go to on the net-learning only until eventually at least the center of February, for all students except vulnerable young children and individuals of essential workers. 

Though colleges remained open very last time period, extra than half a million condition faculty pupils were being off university during the remaining weeks of phrase for coronavirus-related motives, Office for Schooling (DfE) estimates demonstrate.

The authorities faced backlash more than how grading was completed past 12 months amid cancelled examinations, when instructors submitted grades they believed pupils would have achieved in exams for standardisation.

Additional reporting by Press Association