A U-turn over the controversial system for awarding A-level results in England appears imminent after Tory MPs heaped pressure on Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to change course.

Boris Johnson is facing a Tory backlash over the deepening A-levels crisis in England as pupils and teachers continued to protest about the results awarded.

Boris Johnson is under pressure to intervene to end the deepening A-levels crisis in England, amid growing anger among pupils and teachers and warnings of unrest among Tory MPs.

GSCE students in Northern Ireland are to be awarded the grades predicted by their teachers, Stormont’s Education Minister has announced.

Oxford University says it has accepted more than 300 students who missed their grades due to Ofqual’s marking algorithm. Nearly two in five (39.

The Stormont Assembly is set to be recalled from summer recess to discuss the A-level results controversy, after Sinn Féin and Alliance backed the move. A recall petition requires the signatures of 30 of the legislature’s 90 MLAs.

Hundreds of A-level students headed to Westminster in London for further protests against the recent downgrading of exam results.

Boris Johnson is facing calls to take charge of the growing A-levels “fiasco” in the UK amid mounting anger among students, teachers and MPs.

The exams regulator for England has dramatically suspended its criteria for students hoping to challenge their A-level grades on the basis of their results in mock exams.

Students in the UK who had their A-level results downgraded branded the process “dehumanising” as they took to the streets to protest in Westminster.

Pressure is mounting on the British Government over its handling of the exams system after thousands of pupils in England had their results downgraded.

Applicants to Oxford University who successfully appeal over their A-level results have been told they may have to wait a year before they can start their degree courses.

A senior UK government minister has defended this year’s exam results and says the figures “look good” for the number of students able to go to university this year.