Professor says diverging content and results make move necessary for the exams to be compared accurately
GCSEs should be branded to show if they were awarded in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, reflecting the increasing differences between each country’s version of the exam, according to a professor of education.
With about 800,000 16-year-olds waiting to receive their GCSE results on Thursday, Prof Alan Smithers of Buckingham University also said there could be wide variations in results between the national administrations this year.
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