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local schools. Despite best intentions, a situation was created where an unacceptable number of our young people felt trapped and that education was not a route out of poverty.The Scottish Government listened to the exemplary campaigning of pupils, their parents and teachers, and are now putting it right.
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.
nearly 40 per cent of A level grades in England were downgraded leaving some students' devastated with calls for a review and education secretary Gavin Williamson to resign.
after thousands of pupils in England had their results downgraded.Protesters gathered outside Downing Street on Friday chanting for Mr Williamson to be sacked, a call echoed by some opposition MPs.And the Royal Statistical Society has written to the Office of Statistics Regulation to ask for a review into whether “the models and processes adopted by the qualification regulators did in fact achieve quality and trustworthiness”.But Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted he has confidence in Mr
Manchester College are still waiting for their exam results - 24 hours after they were due to be released.
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
hereIt was soon announced that the summer exams, for both GCSE and A level pupils, would be cancelled.Instead of the usual exams, students' grades were instead based on predicted outcomes.However, in a swift change the day before results are due to be given, the Education Secretary announced that both GCSE and A level students in England will be able to use grades in mock exams to progress to university and college courses and employment.There is an opportunity for students to still sit exams in
The minority who saw their entries adjusted up will keep the higher grade.MSP Colin Smyth, said: “The restoration of pupils’ achievement based on the professional judgement of teachers who know them is a victory for fairness, for common sense and above all for those young people who refused to take this injustice lying down.”
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
Paedo teacher jailed for abuse“What does that teach a student who wants to break out of the poverty they may be in? How does that encourage pupils to try harder.”South Lanarkshire Liberal Democrat group leader, Robert Brown, asked for the matter to be discussed at the council’s next executive committee.Councillor Brown said South Lanarkshire’s pupils “deserve the full support of their council”.
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.
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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
Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.North Lanarkshire’s education convener says nearly half of all Higher candidates across the authority had grades reduced in the SQA moderation process.Frank McNally says analysis of the area’s results shows 4951 individual grades, affecting 2900 young people or 46 per cent of candidates, were downgraded from their teachers’ estimates on Tuesday’s results day.He described the process – which saw pass rate estimates for