Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

INSANE: Wjec | Vintage Vibes

Exam board faces £350,000 fine after students received wrong GCSE results

More than 1,500 pupils were awarded the incorrect results for WJEC’s Eduqas food preparation and nutrition GCSE in 2024.

Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2025

Exam board fined £350k after sending students incorrect GCSE results

Those with incorrect lower grades were eventually issued their correct results

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2025

Of Mice And Men and To Kill A Mockingbird removed from Welsh GCSE curriculum

Both American classics have been criticised for their inclusion of racial slurs.

Evening Standard · Dec 23, 2024

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

When do GCSE exams start in 2024 and which subject is the hardest?

The first exam takes place this week, opening GCSE exam season for schools

Evening Standard · May 8, 2024

This summer's GCSE and A-level exam grade boundaries explained

Grades will still be higher than the last set of summer exams pre-pandemic, but things are returning to normal

Wales Online · Jun 14, 2023

When did the 2023 GCSEs begin and when do they end?

While various subjects have their examinations at different times, they will all take place within the same period

Evening Standard · Apr 17, 2023

The teacher who started his own school but won't be teaching the new curriculum

Former state school teacher Alun Millington went to a comprehensive and never set foot in a fee paying school until 2014 - now he runs one

Wales Online · Oct 2, 2022

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Wales will announce new school performance system this autumn - education minister Jeremy Miles

League tables and more recently colour codes have been ditched in Wales but a new system is to be announced

Wales Online · Aug 25, 2022

Schoolgirl's surprise at getting a GCSE in a subject she didn't even take

Alice Matthews, who goes to a school in Hampshire, says other students also received grades in Art without having sat the exam. When she received her results, she was shocked

Daily Mirror · Aug 25, 2022

GCSE 2022 grade boundaries for OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC and CCEA and how to appeal

What are the grade boundaries and when do they come out this year? Here's when and where you can access them for Pearson Edexcel, AQA, OCR, WJEC and CCEA

Liverpool Echo · Aug 25, 2022

WJEC reveals its grade boundaries for A-levels and GCSEs in 2022

A level results were lower this year, and GCSEs are also expected to be lower than under teacher assessed grades during the pandemic

Wales Online · Aug 23, 2022

A-level 2022 grade boundaries for OCR, AQA, Edexcel, WJEC and CCEA

Full list of A-level grade boundaries for Pearson Edexcel, AQA, OCR, WJEC and CCEA

Liverpool Echo · Aug 18, 2022

Top A level grades fall in Wales as overall results dip slightly after first pupils sit exams post-pandemic

Overall results are lower than last year but higher than the last time papers were sat in 2019

Wales Online · Aug 18, 2022

A level 2022 grade boundaries for OCR, Edexcel, AQA and WJEC exam boards

Grade boundaries are expected to be more lenient this year due to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic

Manchester Evening News · Aug 18, 2022

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Wales Online · Jul 21, 2022

Exam results will be lower this summer in most schools and colleges says qualifications chief

But assessed grade methods used when exams were cancelled disadvantaged some learners, says Qualifications Wales

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2022

BBC Bitesize gave platform to ‘extreme’ anti-abortion group

Health experts slam use of the term ‘pro-life’ and inclusion of organisation with a history of promoting misinformation

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022

Exams: ‘Infuriating’ mistakes in GCSE and A levels see students wrongly told to ignore topics

‘The worry and stress this has caused is the last thing these young people need,’ education union leader says

Wales Online · Jun 10, 2022

Exam board says grades 'will be more generous' amid A level paper complaints

The WJEC also explained how students will get marks after an error in an A level paper and why maths exams looked different

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Wales Online · Jun 9, 2022

Students left 'broken, crying and deflated' by 'unfair' A level exams

Complaints have been made to the WJEC over "ridiculously hard" maths questions, a mistake in an English A level paper and content schools claim they were told would not be included

Daily Mirror · Jun 9, 2022

Students in tears after A-level Shakespeare exam is missing four key pages

On Tuesday morning hundreds of A Level students in Wales opened up the English exams they had been preparing for years for only to find a number of important pages missing

The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2022

Students ‘thrown off’ and ‘upset’ after A-level exam blunder missed out Shakespeare questions

Apology ‘does little to address emotional upset and distress’, union says

Wales Online · Jun 9, 2022

Exam board apologises after four pages left out of A Level test

Students were expecting questions on a series of texts

Wales Online · Jun 8, 2022

Exam board apologises after mistake in A-level paper leaves candidates without questions about set texts

Four pages were missing from the English language A-level paper. The error follows complaints about maths AS and A-level papers and music AS-level

Wales Online · May 23, 2022

Parents react to Welsh pupils being reduced to tears as they face hardest exams ever

The WJEC has come under fire for its AS maths exam on May 19 which teachers and pupils said had questions based on part of the exam specification that had been removed.

Wales Online · May 20, 2022

Welsh pupils left in tears as they face hardest exam they've ever seen

Many of the pupils have never taken a formal exam before this week's WJEC AS Maths because of Covid

1 2

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.