If you're unhappy with your grades, you can choose to use results from mock exams taken before coronavirus restrictions enabled schools to close. 

How can I appeal my A-level results and what is the 'triple lock' process? 

Thousands of pupils’ results have been downgraded as school leavers collected their results on Thursday morning.

Students receive A-level results after exams cancelled

After the Scottish government was forced into a U-turn over how it handled exam results, questions have been raised about what this means for the rest of the UK's pupils.

A-level results: How have grades been worked out? 

Speaking to ITV News, Gavin Williamson said the system was fair for students but he wanted there to be an option for those that were dissatisfied with their grades. 

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says exam system is 'robust' and 'fair'

Schools in Scotland are the first to go back in the UK after being told to shut on March 20.

Pupils return to school in Scotland for first time since lockdown began

Schools will introduce extra hygiene measures and large groups are encouraged to be avoided.


Scientists at Public Health England have warned secondary school pupils are as likely to transmit coronavirus as easily as adults, reports suggest.

Secondary school pupils 'transmit coronavirus as easily as adults'

What does the science say as schools prepare to open their doors?

Questions answered on the science behind coronavirus and schools

Teachers, scientists, opposition politicians and the children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield have all called for improvements to testing.

'Little evidence' Covid-19 transmitted in schools, Gavin Williamson says

The Prime Minister is understood to favour only closing schools as the last resort.

PM 'would close shops and pubs ahead of schools' in severe local lockdowns

Children's commissioner Anne Longfield said children were too often “an afterthought” during the first lockdown.

Pubs prioritised over schools in relaxing lockdown, commissioner suggests

Test and Trace may be improving, but will it improve enough in just over a month to ensure schools can open and a second wave is avoided? 

Second wave in December ‘likely’ unless Test and Trace improves

Children playing football outside of a primary school in Wales. 

ITV News Wales Correspondent Rupert Evelyn heard from parents, children and teachers from Crosskeys in South Wales on their first day back.

Children in Wales return to school for the first time since March

Construction on 50 projects in England could start in September 2021.

PM's £1 billion schools pledge a 'very small gesture'

New guidance for schools is being considered, with one option being to allow larger "bubbles" within classes.

Class size limits could be expanded to get pupils back to school, minister says

Relying on student's predicted grades during the coronavirus crisis could be unfairly "predicting futures" of some students.