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The article reports on the Association of School and College Leaders' (ASCL) proposals for grading general certificate of secondary education and A-levels amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as of February 2021. Topics covered include ASCL's warning that plans for assessing grades must not become exams by another name, the idea of exam boards providing a range of papers or banks of questions that teachers could use to assess their students and how schools and colleges should submit grades.

The article offers insight to a survey conducted by Great Britain Association of School and College Leaders, according to which secondary schools in England and Wales have reported a rising tide of pupil poverty. It informs that survey which was completed by headteachers who represented 11 percent of state-funded secondary schools reveled issues of poverty, sanitary products, and food banks in schools.