News

February 2021

8 February

AQA Unlocking Potential 2021 launches

Eighty students have begun their journey on this year’s AQA Unlocking Potential programme.

5 February

Historic environment sites for 2023

A list of historic environment sites for 2023, GCSE History (8145).

2 February

Functional Skills entries for the March 2021 series

The Department for Education (DfE) confirmed on Friday 22 January that schools and colleges can continue with the March series exams where they judge it right to do so.

1 February

GCSE Media Studies and Zoella

Last week we made the difficult decision to remove a section looking at the vlogger and blogger Zoella (Zoe Sugg) from our GCSE Media Studies course. Since then, there have been some misunderstandings in the media and on social media about the

January 2021

22 January

Entry fees for summer 2021

We’ve published our entry fees for the summer 2021 series. Because of the events of this year, we’re a little bit later than usual publishing these. We also published an update on 22 January about paying fees.

20 January

JCQ guidance on NEA for summer 2021

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) has issued guidance for teachers and senior leaders on completing NEA this summer.

18 January

AQA Student Advisory Group Zoom event 2021

We held our first virtual Student Advisory Group reception this month to welcome four new members to the group and announce the new chair for this year.

15 January

DfE and Ofqual summer 2021 consultation

The Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual have launched a consultation for the summer 2021 exam series for GCSEs, AS and A-levels.

7 January

Vocational and Technical exams in January 2021

The Department for Education (DfE) confirmed on Monday 4 January 2021 that schools and colleges can continue with the January series exams where they judge it right to do so.

5 January

Coronavirus and exams

The government has announced that it won’t be possible for exams to go ahead as normal in summer 2021.