{"id":43093,"date":"2023-06-28T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/06\/28\/gcses-in-wales-whats-changing-why-and-from-when\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:27:48","slug":"gcses-in-wales-whats-changing-why-and-from-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=43093","title":{"rendered":"GCSEs in Wales: What&#8217;s changing, why and from when?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">What are the concerns? <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Many people in education are excited by the changes in the curriculum but worry about how GCSEs will fit in to it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">How do you pin down some of the qualities it is trying to encourage in assessments and exams? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Some had argued for GCSEs to be ditched altogether. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The view of colleges, universities and employers about the qualifications is a concern for some.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But Qualifications Wales, which is introducing the changes, said it has made sure those concerns are understood and Welsh pupils will not be disadvantaged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">And getting to grips with the changes will put more pressure on schools still coping with the fall-out of Covid and tight budgets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cw4vk7nzg4wo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] What are the concerns? Many people in education are excited by the changes in the curriculum but worry about how GCSEs will fit in to it. How do you &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}