MySpace, MyExams

Published: August 6, 2007, 4:05 am

Tags: assessment, ltsfutures, socialisation, levels, exam results, standard grades, bbc, edexcel, examination, exams, highers, myspace, results, sqa

Students in the UK can expect to get their examination results over the next couple of weeks through secure online services and even MySpace. Today, about 35,000 connected Scottish students will receive their high school exam results before their paper-based peers in a new, if slightly slow, online exam service from the SQA. The romance of the brown envelope falling through the letterbox, the nervous opening of the package in front of the parents (or the TV cameras for a few unfortunate but always, it seems, A+ candidates), all of this has been lost, but that might not be such a bad thing. (It's also really strange sitting here in the school holidays seeing kids from my former school 'doing their exams' for the cameras every half hour on 24-hour news.) Students in England will also be receiving their results soon, with the option to get them over MySpace. Another first, this means that, wherever they are in the world for your holidays or gap year, students can log on to find out

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