When I passed my driving test at 17, I would drive around the M60 ring road for hours at night to clear my head of exam stress; but since then, I had forgotten how a long drive on quiet roads can be soothing.
Dozens of education officials, including teachers and the heads of exam centres, were arrested over the leak and at least 300,000 pupils were made to retake tests.
On the 1st of June, the Ministry of Education instructed Heads of exam centers to accept all candidates despite non-payment of exam fees.
Teenagers should sit A-level exams a week earlier to ensure all students are given a fair chance of a university place, the head of the exams watchdog told private schools today.
On April 22nd the head of the exams regulator, who had resigned after the fiasco, told MPs that ministers had made him the fall guy.
He rang Glenys Stacey, the outgoing head of school exams watchdog Ofqual, to encourage her to apply for the post of chief inspector of probation.
The killer blow was delivered by Glenys Stacey, the head of the exams regulator Ofqual, who wrote an open letter to Gove last December warning of "significant risks" if the reforms went ahead.
The head of the exams watchdog has signalled wide-ranging reforms to A-levels to tackle claims that examiners have been giving students "the benefit of the doubt", leading to persistent grade inflation.
Andrew Hall, head of the exam board AQA, said: "Stronger students took the exam in the winter season, which was the last opportunity for schools and colleges to sit English with the speaking and listening element.
Jerry Jarvis, head of the exam board Edexcel, said: "We're looking at other ways of discriminating, or ranking figures, quite regularly in discussions we have.
