Weekly Thursday Education News Round-Up – 07/11/2019

Demand and costs are pushing free school transport in England "to breaking point", a new report has revealed. Local authorities are now spending more than £1 billion per year year on school transport, according to the analysis. Ofqual goes to enormous lengths to ensure that GCSE standards are consistent from year to year using its carefully calibrated comparable outcomes grading system. So you might expect that the exams regulator would achieve the same consistency when it came to grading standards between different GCSE subjects. But an announcement today suggests not.