Home Archived GCSE results: latest news Back GCSE results: latest news Follow developments with our round-up of news on the GCSE results 31st August 2012, 1:00am Tes Editorial Share GCSE results: latest news https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/gcse-results-latest-news Copy Link GCSE results newsCalls rise to a clamour for independent GCSE inquiryEx-head of Ofqual wades in as expectation of legal action growsUnlucky for some: why new exams could raise risk of `wrong grades’More results will hinge on `luck of the draw’, academics predictThe new EBac Certificates - what does it mean?Michael Shaw’s guide to this week’s landmark change in secondary examsHeads turn to the law over grading scandalLawyers confident that judges would quash June GCSE marksSelect committee will hold full inquiry into GCSE English grading scandalMPs believe there are too many unanswered questions and will take evidence from exam boardsThose leaked GCSE English letters in fullPressure builds on Ofqual after leaked letters reveal it overruled `fair’ GCSE gradesCalls for chief regulator to resign after correspondence emerges that contradicts its report into scandalThe secret correspondence that answers many questions over the grading fiasco but asks even moreLeaked letters leave Ofqual in exposed position after it becomes clear that its involvement amounted to much more than `advice and guidance’`A big mess’Ofqual’s rules suggest it should have prevented GCSE grading changesGCSE English results will standStudents will be offered extra resit but heads’ leader renews threat of legal actionOfqual flagged issue at heart of grading crisis three years agoSolution to modular GCSE problem was not implemented“Many tens of thousands affected” by GCSE English marking scandalLatest analysis suggests many more have been hit than first thoughtHeadteachers consider legal challenge against exam boards in row over GCSE gradesFears that pupils from poor backgrounds and ethnic minorities unfairly hit by lower gradesEnglish results `unfairly marked down’, say headteachersSchool leaders claim grade boundaries manipulated to reduce number of C gradesGCSE results: grade inflation comes to a halt for the first time in the qualification’s historyTwenty-four years of continuous improvement endsGCSE overhaul: reform in haste, repent at leisureBrian Lightman warns against incremental, hasty changes to the National Curriculum.It’s time to teach business leaders a lesson in constructive criticismBusinesses: stop bashing schools and start collaborating with them, says Gerard KellyRead our GCSE webchat with TES reporter Williams Stewart and regular TES columnis Geoff Barton.GCSE chat from teachersGove’s GCSE resultsTeachers debate what the latest results really mean.Is centralised pay hitting GCSE grades?The daily papers claim it is, but what do teachers really think?Gove’s plans to reform GCSEsTeachers debate the pros and cons of O levels v GCSEs.GCSE English language resultsHave your results inexplicably dropped this year?OCR ICT resultsWere you happy with your pupils’ results?GCSE reform news and opinonSlow down or say goodbye to `world class’, Gove toldRushing new `O levels’ will harm quality, exam boards cautionBeyond the gradePupils will be ranked nationally as part of the new O-level-style qualificationsNew curriculum will allow `extreme’ freedomIt won’t be abolished but it will be `very, very short’, says Gove’s teamO level plan: revolutionary for sure..but has Mr Gove really thought this through? 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