What the next step would be by now. And the class of 2020 is facing more uncertainty. Three days after the results came out, here, or so we thought, was the criteria for appealing. On this page of quuals website, students and teachers could find out what a valid mock exam looks like butjust hours later, the document disappeared. In a statement, the regulator said. That is a huge mess, goodness knows what is going on. Quual is sowing confusion amongst pupils, head teachers, School Teachers and its the last thing we need at this time. We need a ronseal appeals system thats simple, people understand it. There is no official reason why the criteria was taken down. But some pointed to a section that suggested if a students mock exam result was better than their predicted grade, the predicted grade would stand. I think this shows the government are making it up as they go along and theyjust simply havent got a clue. I mean, five months ago they were presented with this problem, and no situat
And coming up at 7. 30, its the film review with anna smith. Good evening. Theres more uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of a level students, and those waiting for gcse results in a few days time. The exams regulator, quual, has withdrawn its advice on how pupils can appeal their allocated grades, just hours after making the advice public. The government has been under fire since thursday, when a level results were awarded and nearly 40 of teacher assessments were downgraded. Now, a former conservative education secretary, says the government should stop digging itself a hole and postpone this weeks gcse results. With the latest, heres s our education editor, branwen jeffreys. Outraged, disappointed by their a levels. The common theme is anger. A lot of people are really sad and stressed. It is a very stressful time. Your future is uncertain. Students brought their protest to westminster today. I was predicted aaa, and i got given bcc. And ijust think its unfair that we got given t
This is bbc news. The headlines at 4pm. As students protest against the downgrading of a level results in england more confusion as the exam regulator withdraws its guidance on appealing against grades just hours after publishing it. The common thing is anger. A lot of people are really sad and the stress, it is a really stressful time. Like, yourfuture is uncertain. I think the general attitude is, people want change. People want the government to be held accountable. Its about time that Boris Johnson takes for this and stops making it up as he goes along, because its far too serious for that, and i think in the next 2a hours hes got to come and explain to students, parents and teachers, how he will address this historic injustice. The search for two teenage brothers who went missing in the sea near Lytham St Annes in lancashire is called off by the coastguard. A huge crowd of opposition supporters gathers in the centre of the belarussian capital minsk to protest last weekends dispute
This is bbc news. The headlines at 6. As students protest against the downgrading of a level results in england, more confusion as the exam regulator withdraws its guidance on appealing against grades, just hours after publishing it. The common theme is anger. A lot of people are really sad and the stress, it is a really stressful time. Like, yourfuture is uncertain. I think the general attitude is, people want change. People want the government to be held accountable. Its about time that Boris Johnson takes personal responsibility for this and stops making it up as he goes along, because its far too serious for that, and i think in the next 24 hours hes got to come and explain to students, parents and teachers, how he will address this historic injustice. The coastguard says two bodies have been found after two teenage brothers went missing in the sea near Lytham St Annes in lancashire. A huge crowd of opposition more confusion over a level results, supporters gathers in the centre of