A major review into education in Wales has recommended that GCSEs should not be axed – but kept as part of a reformed exam system.
The new exams would be built around a “strengthened” Welsh Baccalaureate and would be overseen by a Scottish-style single body.
Former college head Huw Evans, who led the review board, said the package of 42 recommendations was “very much driven by the need to establish an education and qualifications system everybody can be proud of in Wales”.
It comes amid increasing divergence between policy in Wales and England, in the wake of a decision by Wales’s education minister Leighton Andrews to regrade English GCSEs taken by Welsh students, provoking a row with his UK counterpart Michael Gove and the English regulator Ofqual.
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