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Supporting you this autumn term

Hi Colleague

We hope you've had a good week.

If you're submitting unit level teacher assessed grades for Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals, please do so today via the Grade Submission System. To support you in submitting your grades, we've gathered together the answers to the most frequently asked questions.

Also in this week’s news: 

  • a reminder about the changes to summer 2022 GCSE, AS and A Level exams and assessments
  • remember to book your place on our Cambridge Nationals Roadshows – last few places available
  • blogs published by our Subject Advisors to mark National Poetry Day, Black History Month and World Mental Health Day.

Finally, we sent a 2021/22 planning survey to exams officers yesterday asking whether your centre is teaching and planning to make entries for a specific selection of our qualifications this year. Your centre's feedback will allow us to make sure we're providing the right support for you. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Best wishes

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Submitting unit level teacher assessed grades
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Today is the deadline for you to submit your Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals unit level teacher assessed grades via the Grade Submission System.

For details of how to submit your teacher assessed grades, please see our step-by-step guidance and FAQs.

Grade Submission System  FAQs

Your students are eligible for a unit level teacher assessed grade for any assessments which they would have planned to take in 2020/21 (doing the assessment by 31 August 2021). This includes units you planned to take before assessments were cancelled and units where you had originally planned to take but then decided to reduce the unit assessment.

Summer 2022 arrangements

Just to remind you the outcome of the joint DfE/Ofqual consultation on changes to the assessment of GCSEs, AS and A Levels exams in summer 2022 was published last week. We summarised the outcome in our news story.

Alongside changes to assessments covering adaptations and advance information, the announcements also included the approach to grading of exams and the timing of results days.
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The announcements covered GCSE, AS and A Level. We confirmed our 2021/22 adaptations for Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals last month. We can now also confirm that the same January 2022 assignment can be used in June 2022 for the Cambridge National Certificate in Information Technologies moderated unit (R013). Read more here.

Ofqual and DfE have also announced a short consultation on contingency plans in the event that exams do not go ahead next summer.  You can find out more about this and how to take part in the consultation in our policy article. Please send your response by 23:45 on Wednesday 13 October.

We’ve summarised the package of measures for summer 2022 exams in our latest Subject Information Update.

Summer 2022 adaptations   

Results days 2022

Finally, a reminder the DfE has confirmed the timing of results days next August:

  • 18 August 2022: results day for A Levels, Cambridge Technicals and other Level 3 qualifications
  • 25 August 2022: results day for GCSEs, Cambridge Nationals and other Level 2 qualifications.
Cambridge Nationals Roadshows
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There's still spaces available on our autumn term Cambridge Nationals Roadshows – book your place now.

Our online roadshows are designed for all teaching staff who are considering their options for 2022 and are either new to these qualifications or those who are teaching our current Cambridge Nationals.

During the roadshows, our expert Subject Advisors will be on hand to answer any of your questions and will provide you with:

  • an overview of the redeveloped qualifications
  • key changes to topic areas in the subject specification
  • the approach to terminal assessment
  • an outline of the support and resources we’ll be providing to help you plan and teach.

Book your place
New blogs from our Subject Advisors

We've published a number of blogs this week which you might like to share with your students:

National Poetry Day: we share some suggestions on how you can encourage students to see poetry creatively.
Black History Month: we highlight the lives and work of six black British pioneers of STEM.
World Mental Health Day: we offer our top tips about how to be kind to yourself and stay positive.
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