Almost 1,100 students caught using phones in GCSE and A-level exams

Students smuggling mobile phones into exam halls were the reason for a sudden rise in the numbers caught cheating during last summer’s GCSE and A-level exams in England, according to official data.The figures also showed that the number of teachers and school staff involved in exam malpractice more than doubled between 2016 and 2017.Ofqual, the exam regulator for England, said the most common category of malpractice was the introduction of “unauthorised materials” into exam ven