The foreign secretary says the uk does not accept the result of the election. New zealands general election is postponed because of a fresh outbreak of covid 19. Millions of self employed workers in the uk can apply for a second round of grants from today to help support their businesses against the effects of coronavirus. Hello, and welcome. If youre watching in the uk or around the world, stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Pressure is growing on the government over exam grades as new analysis suggests a level results awarded to students in sixth form colleges in england fell below the average of the past the three years. The sixth Form Colleges Association says its students in england are being treated unfairly. 2completely unfit for purpose is the verdict on the standardisation model used by the regulator quual, according to the Grammar School Heads Association. It says its led to utterly baffling results for some students. This morning, No
Government of a fiasco. Also this evening in belarus, more protests and strikes against its president of 26 years after his disputed re election. How the lockdown has widened the gap between the richest and poorest Primary School children. And the winners and losers from the governments second and final support grant. And we ask pupils in bristol how the uncertainty over exam results has affected them and coming up on bbc news delays to the start of the final day in southampton between england and pakistan, but could they salvage anything after a rain ravaged second test . Good evening. In a huge policy reversal, affecting hundreds of thousands of pupils, a level and gsce results across the uk will now be based on Teacher Assessments, rather than grades generated by computer analysis. The education secretary Gavin Williamson apologised this afternoon for the distress caused and the chairman of the exams regulator quual acknowledged the real anguish and the damage to public confidence.
Life in such a brutal way. Debenhams is to disappear from the high street with the loss of 12,000 jobs. The fast fashion retailer boohoo has bought the brand and website, but not the stores. Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge as he pays the price for winning only one of their past five league matches. Borisjohnson says he wants to see schools reopen as soon as possible amid warnings children have become the forgotten victims of the pandemic. Hes coming under growing pressure from mps to name a date chair of the Education Select Committee, robert halfon, had asked for an urgent question in the house of commons but the speaker denied his request. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister said hes actively working on a proposal requiring travellers arriving in the uk to pay to quarantine in a hotel. It comes as the latest figures show that more than 6. 3 Million People have had a first vaccine dose. And in the last few moments moderna has said its vaccine does produce antib
Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. A major government u turn in england as the exams regulator says all a level and gcse students in england will be given the grades assessed by their teachers or their moderated grade if that was higher. It will make would like to say sorry for that and we are now making steps to correct that. The opposition says the government should have sorted this out weeks ago, while the education secretary has apologised saying students had been affected by significa nt inconsistencies. Where there is quite obviously injustices and we have seen that in the system, we have to act. This problem has been there for months and the government has not sorted it out. It made the wrong decision last week, refused to change its mind until today and now theres a huge amount of unraveling that has to be done. The wales and Northern Ireland governments announce they will do the same for their students. Anger on the streets of belarus with a new wave of strikes to try to
EVE SIMMONS: THE MPs pictured here - the present Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work and three of his predecessors - ought to do some serious soul-searching this week.