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'The stars are now aligned for GCSE reform'

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By Andy Kemp, Tom Arrand, Irena Barker Verified, Durell Barnes
| School Management Plus
When seven former education ministers from across the political divide join forces to call for bold action, surely the incumbent must act. Collectively they highlight the need to move away from an overly exam-based system to a forward-looking education which includes character, creative thinking, problem solving and other skills, alongside the best of the more traditional aspects of our current system.
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Your students aren't reading books? Show them how it's done

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By Irena Barker Verified, Durell Barnes, Aidan Warlow, Tom Arrand
| School Management Plus
Roughly speaking, the proportion of suitable applicants to Oxford and Cambridge who receive an offer to those who do not, is approximately 1:8. This is the first thing I explain to aspiring Year 12 students who have decided to take the first tentative steps on the Oxbridge journey.
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Cambridge International to launch digital exams

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By Irena Barker Verified, Durell Barnes
| School Management Plus
Cambridge International has announced the launch of digital exams in six subjects from June 2026. Students at schools in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and the US will be the first to take exams on laptops, including the AS English general paper and multiple-choice questions in IGCSE accounting, economics, biology, chemistry and physics. This first phase will be followed by a wider global rollout of digital exams across Cambridge IGCSE, International AS and A-level curricula.
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