{"id":3717,"date":"2017-08-24T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/24\/gcse-overhaul-means-results-are-incomparable-to-previous-years\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T01:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:01:03","slug":"gcse-overhaul-means-results-are-incomparable-to-previous-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=3717","title":{"rendered":"GCSE overhaul means results are \u2018incomparable to previous years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headteachers say it would be \u2018unjust and unreliable\u2019 to try to compare Thursday\u2019s grades with those under the old systemThe \u201cunprecedented changes\u201d to this year\u2019s GCSE exams in English and maths means results cannot be compared with those of previous years, headteachers have warned as hundreds of thousands of pupils wait to receive their results on Thursday morning.The changes are the biggest overhaul of the examination system in England since GCSEs were introduced to replace O-levels nearly 30 years ago. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2017\/aug\/24\/gcse-overhaul-means-results-are-incomparable-to-previous-years\" target=\"_blank\">GCSE overhaul means results are \u2018incomparable to previous years\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headteachers say it would be \u2018unjust and unreliable\u2019 to try to compare Thursday\u2019s grades with those under the old systemThe \u201cunprecedented changes\u201d to this year\u2019s GCSE exams in English and maths means results cannot be compared with those of previous years, headteachers have warned as hundreds of thousands of pupils [&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-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}