GCSE and A-Degree exams have been axed this summer time, it has been introduced tonight.
Hours after Boris Johnson gave a press convention on England’s strict new March-style lockdown, ministers have confirmed summer time exams are cancelled.
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GCSE and A-Degree exams are cancelled this summer time, it has been confirmed
Training Secretary Gavin Williamson has launched a short assertion forward of a speech in Parliament tomorrow.
He mentioned: “The Authorities place is that we’ll not be asking college students to take a seat GCSE and A Ranges.”
Ministers are working with the exams regulator Ofqual to discover a system for awarding grades that “displays the arduous work” of pupils throughout the nation, he added.
It comes after the PM final evening mentioned the exams would not be “potential or truthful” for teenagers compelled out of face-to-face educating for months through the pandemic.
Colleges will stay shut till at the least the February half-term as a mutant pressure of Covid takes maintain in each area of England.
And one in each 50 individuals dwelling within the nation is now thought to have coronavirus as hospital admissions soar 40 per cent above the height in April.
Final evening, Mr Johnson informed Brits: “It is not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead as normal.
“Various preparations will probably be put in place.”
And this morning Michael Gove, former schooling secretary, mentioned: “Clearly we will’t have A-levels, GCSEs or Btecs in the way in which that we now have had them up to now.
“However there are methods of making certain that we will assess the work that college students have completed, give them a good recognition of that and assist them on to the subsequent stage of their schooling.”
When requested if that meant exams can be cancelled, he replied: “Sure”.
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