'It should never have happened' Joint General Secretary at National Education Union, Mary Bousted says 'the fairest way ahead' is to give students their teacher assessed grades and adds the situation is 'simply unfair and unjust'.
School leavers entering a highly-competitive jobs market are also fearing the impact of their predicted results being downgraded.
"We make three points in that letter; we say, firstly, the absence of an appeal system - a meaningful appeal system - for individual students is unlawful."And thirdly, we point to Ofqual's statutory obligation to ensure that accurate grades are delivered and we say that its failure to do that, again, is unlawful."Ofqual has defended its moderation of A-level grades, saying that some schools and colleges had submitted"implausibly high" A-level predictions.
Meanwhile, The Observer reported more than 4.6 million GCSEs in England - about 97% of the total - will be assigned solely by Ofqual's algorithm.
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