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How Scotland is heading for an even bigger exams debacle The staggering ineptitude of those who run the Scottish education system has left teachers and pupils in a nightmarish situation. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and education secretary John Swinney When is an exam not an exam? In the through-the-looking-glass world of Scottish politics, it’s when the SNP government says so. This belligerence may be about to cause the first scandal of the new Holyrood parliament. If last year’s school exam fiasco was bad, this year’s looks likely to be worse. And it will have been caused by the staggering ineptitude of those who run the system. ....
BBC News Published image captionFormal exams were cancelled but students are sitting assessments on which their grades will be based The Scottish Qualifications Authority has written to schools about very serious incidents of students sharing details of assessments on social media. Formal exams were cancelled this year because of Covid but students are instead sitting assessments. Each school has its own arrangements but the SQA has provided question papers which they can use. It has emerged that pupils who have already sat the exams have been sharing information on the Tiktok app. Following reports of thousands of students discussing the questions on social media, the SQA wrote to schools on Monday to tell them they needed to investigate candidate malpractice and apply the appropriate penalties . ....
Updated: May 11, 2021, 1:48 pm Typical exams have been cancelled this year and replaced with assessments (David Jones/PA) Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up School pupils in Scotland have been warned against sharing details of assessments on social media. In a letter from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) sent to schools on Monday, director of qualifications development Dr Gill Stewart said they had been made aware of “very serious incidents” of assessments being shared. The letter goes on to say “appropriate penalties” should be applied to pupils in breach of exam rules, but these should be used by individual schools and not by the SQA. ....