Assessment
The latest news and analysis on exams in the UK, including key dates, timetables, results and statistics for Sats, GCSEs and A levels
Friday
27th Jun 2025
New SQA chief executive announced
Former council chief will lead Scotland’s qualifications body through reform after leaving his previous role in the wake of Ofsted criticism of children’s services following the killing of a six-year-old boy

Exam board apologises for physics A-level errors
Institute of Physics contacts exam boards ‘urgently seeking reassurances’, as OCR apologises for mistakes in papers

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Thursday
26th Jun 2025
MSPs vote to replace SQA despite ‘rebrand’ criticism
The passing of legislation is an ‘opportunity missed’ to improve the learning environment of pupils, warns Scotland’s biggest teaching union

AI advances lay bare sluggishness of Scottish education reform
Change in Scottish education is proving slow – but could the forthcoming election focus minds when it comes to the promised reduction in teachers’ class-contact time, asks Emma Seith

Exams 2025: GCSE and A-level entries drop - and 5 other trends
Why have GCSE and A-level entries fallen if the student population has increased? Ellen Peirson-Hagger analyses the Ofqual entry data for this exam season
