hundreds of thousands of students received their exam results on thursday, allowing them to sort out their university places. but some btec students are still waiting to see how they did in vocational courses. exam board pearson won t reveal how many are affected but says it s a small percentage. the association of colleges isn t impressed. pearson won t tell us the numbers, but i know in some colleges there are several hundred students who haven t got their results from pearson. in any normal year there is a handful, perhaps, in a college. but hundreds is unprecedented. so we absolutely need pearson to openly investigate what went wrong, publish the findings and make sure this doesn t happen again. in a statement, pearson said: another exam board, ocr, is also apologising for delays in issuing cambridge technical s results, a vocational qualification with an emphasis on workplace skills. it says it has delivered more than 1,000 results in the last 2a hours. among those waiti
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. dockers at britain s largest container port, felixstowe, have gone on strike for the first time in three decades. it is the first of eight. almost 2,000 workers are taking part in the eight day action after rejecting a 7% pay offer. there are warnings that the strike will cause disruption to supply chains for shops and other retailers half of britain s container trade goes through the port in suffolk. the government says supply chains are resilient. here s our business correspondent marc ashdown. the summer of strikes has reached felixstowe docks. these workers would normally be making sure essential goods find their way to households, but today, 1,900 members of the unite union are starting an eight day walk out. people are so angry now that a company who made £240 million profit over the last two years are unwilling to share that. well, when i say share it, unwilling to share it, in 2020, the same company paid out £99 million in
as she was driving home. the exam board pearson has apologised after some btec students did not receive their results as expected last thursday, throwing university places into doubt. and if you havejustjoined us, a warm welcome to bbc news. we begin at this hour with the strike at felixstowe port. dockers at britain s largest container port, felixstowe, have gone on strike for the first time in three decades. almost 2,000 workers are taking part in the eight day action, after rejecting a 7% pay offer. there are warnings that the strike will cause disruption to supply chains for shops and other retailers half of britain s container trade goes through the port in suffolk. the government says supply chains are resilient. here s our business correspondent mark ashdown. the summer of strikes has reached felixstowe docks. these workers would normally be making sure essential goods find their way to households, but today, 1,900 members of the unite union are starting an eight day
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