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‘They are making young people ill’: is it time to scrap GCSEs?

11 June 2025

“If we could invest more money in teacher education, and supporting teachers to assess in schools, then that is a way to reorientate all that expertise in assessment,” said Professor Mary Richardson (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society) on GCSE alternatives.

Read: Guardian