Gavin Williamson resists calls to resign over exam grades ‘mega-mess’ U-turn
Gavin Williamson has apologised to students affected by the Government’s handling of results.
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Tories’ ‘incompetence is holding Britain back from recovery’
Shadow education secretary Kate Green has written to Gavin Williamson with 15 questions, including asking when students will receive their new grades.
Gavin Williamson apologises after U-turn over A-level results
Ofqual’s chairman Roger Taylor also admitted the regulator had gone down the “wrong road”.
Major government U-turns this year
Today is just the latest in a long list of government reversals.
Stormzy donates half a million pounds to scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
He already awards “Stormzy scholarships” to two black students each year at the University of Cambridge.
Boris Johnson faces Tory backlash over deepening A-level crisis
“No algorithm is going to sort our problem out", former Conservative education secretary Lord Baker said.
Ofqual’s algorithm resulted in “rampant” inflation in elitist subjects such as Latin and classics
Subjects which are mainly offered by independent schools were inflated because they're not subjected to the standardisation process.
“Invisible” Boris Johnson faces calls to intervene to end A-levels crisis
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the Prime Minister to take “personal responsibility” for fixing the issue.
Teenagers suing Ofqual over ‘insane’ A-level fiasco
Student Curtis Parfitt-Ford has launched a legal bid against Ofqual to “force them to come up with a fairer system”.