Education Record app

The government has announced a new digital exam results pilot to help schools and colleges save up to £30m a year and cut back bureaucracy.

Exam certificates will go digital for thousands of students this summer as part of a modernised ‘education record’ to be introduced by government. The new digital records will do away with the need to manually pass on paper files when young people leave school, bringing their paperwork into one easy to access Education Record app they can use when applying for further education, apprenticeships or employment. More than 95,000 young people in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands will also receive their GCSE results via the app this summer, ahead of a future national roll out.

The government estimates the move could save schools and colleges up to £30m per year once the full roll out is complete. The Education Record app is part of wider government drive to overhaul how the public sector uses technology.