Hundreds of Stewartry school pupils see exam results upgraded after Education Minister U-turn

school pupils at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh have tested positive for coronavirus. Health board NHS Highland confirmed the cases and stated that track and trace measures are in place to confirm close contacts.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterSecondary school pupils in Ayrshire will be told to wear face masks from Monday (August 31).The Scottish Government confirmed this morning that they would be implementing the guidance following a review of safety measures.Pupils will have to wear face coverings in corridors and communal areas but there will also be exemptions, the Government has said.Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Good

A council spokesman said: "We have no plans to participate in the scheme at present.

coronavirus. Kingspark School, in Dundee, was forced to close on Wednesday after pupils and teachers were asked to self-isolate for two weeks.

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exam results for English pupils. The shambles comes one week after the Scottish Government became the first of four UK administrations to bow to mounting pressure and scrap downgraded results.

Manchester College are still waiting for their exam results - 24 hours after they were due to be released.

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Boris Johnson has defended education secretary Gavin Williamson after he came under fire over pupils having their A-Level results downgraded.The Prime Minister, speaking during a visit to Northern Ireland, told reporters that this year's results are “good” and are “dependable for employers”.“Let’s be in no doubt about it, the exam results that we’ve got today are robust," Mr Johnson said."They’re good, they’re dependable for employers, but already I think that there’s a record number of

“Our outdoor learning is going up from one day a week to every day,” she said.

hereResults will be based on teachers’ predictions and statistical modelling.Teachers were asked to predict the grades they thought pupils would have achieved had exams gone ahead, based on coursework, the result of mock exams, and homework.Schools were also requested to rank pupils in each subject.But Northern Ireland’s exams body, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment, said students will have a broader scope to appeal their A level and GCSE grades.Student approaches to

Yesterday, he told us: “Hundreds of young people across Renfrewshire were marked down by the SQA based on a flawed system that entrenches the very inequalities the government should be trying to address.

City's last music shop closes after 37 years due to pandemic and church works "As the first minister confirmed yesterday in those cases where moderation led to an increased grade learners will not lose that award. Many of those young people will already have moved on to secure college or university places on the strength of the award made to them.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Nicola Sturgeon has apologised to students impacted by the downgrading of exam results, saying: “We did not get this right, and I am sorry for that.”The First Minister says individual appeals will not have to be lodged by every candidate and that a Holyrood statement tomorrow by education secretary John Swinney will outline how the controversy is to be addressed.Speaking at her daily briefing, she

@SQA and for Advanced Highers it was 43.3%.

Scottish Government to reverse the downgrading of results of thousands of children, mostly from poorer areas. Students from across the country travelled to the city to protest and support their fellow pupils.