{"id":2785,"date":"2017-08-17T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/17\/a-level-grades-will-be-fair-uk-exam-regulator-tells-students\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T01:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T23:01:15","slug":"a-level-grades-will-be-fair-uk-exam-regulator-tells-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"A-level grades will be fair, UK exam regulator tells students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofqual head reassures students they will not lose out this year after 13 A-level subjects changed to new formatEngland\u2019s chief exam regulator has pledged that A-level grades awarded to hundreds of thousands of students on Thursday will be fair, despite the more demanding papers and complaints from pupils about out-of-date textbooks and a lack of practice materials.As sixth-formers across Britain anxiously await Thursday morning\u2019s results \u2013 with emails and log-ins replacing the traditional envelope \u2013 Sally Collier, head of the exam regulator Ofqual, sought to reassure students that they would not be disadvantaged by being the first to take the revised courses. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2017\/aug\/17\/a-level-grades-will-be-fair-uk-exam-regulator-tells-students\" target=\"_blank\">A-level grades will be fair, UK exam regulator tells students<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofqual head reassures students they will not lose out this year after 13 A-level subjects changed to new formatEngland\u2019s chief exam regulator has pledged that A-level grades awarded to hundreds of thousands of students on Thursday will be fair, despite the more demanding papers and complaints from pupils about out-of-date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}