Education secretary claims employers won’t even ask about A-level results in a decade as she’s quizzed on low grades
The Education secretary has stated employers is not going to even ask about pupils’ A-levels in a decade, as college students throughout the nation open their examination results.
Gillian Keegan was being quizzed over an anticipated fall in grades this yr, which she characterised as the system going “again to regular” after the pandemic.
“Any individual requested me, ‘What’s going to individuals ask you in 10 years’ time?’,” she informed broadcaster GB Information.
“They won’t ask you something about your A-level grades in 10 years’ time. They may ask you about different issues you may have accomplished since then: what you may have accomplished in the work place, what you probably did at college.”
College students who had been assessed for his or her A-levels throughout the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t sit exams and got teacher-assessed grades as a substitute.
Some parts of academics evaluation had been retained for college students as much as final yr, however pupils in England have now reverted to exams.
There are considerations that this yr’s cohort may very well be deprived when in comparison with college students who sat their exams in the earlier two years when grades had been inflated.
However Ms Keegan insisted that anticipated fall in grade in England was truthful regardless of examination regulators in Wales and Northern Eire saying they don’t anticipated to return to pre-pandemic grading till 2024.
Pupils this yr sat exams with out pandemic-style instructor evaluation (PA)
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“The entire grading system might be again to regular and so the colleges will calibrate to that,” she informed Sky Information.
“Now we have labored with the colleges in order that they perceive it, with the admissions officers. And likewise with companies, in order that they perceive it.
“All people is aware of that these are completely different circumstances to the teacher-assessed grades and even final yr, which was half method between the 2 techniques, extra much like what they’ve accomplished in Northern Eire and Wales.”
