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A principal in Enniskillen has welcomed changes to the GCSE and A- Level classifications in light of the continued Covid-19 pandemic. Schools will be determining pupils’ grades in place of sitting formal exams. This change was announced by education Minister Peter Weir on Tuesday. Mr. Simon Mowbray, Devenish College welcomed the announcement from the Education Minister. He said: “On the whole we are very pleased with the announcement that the minister has made, it’s the right decision for students, teachers and parents. “Personally, I have been calling for clarity right back from October time, because I felt with the level of absence across schools across Northern Ireland with absences both teacher absences and pupil absences that the integrity of the exams had been compromised.
School principals have said they are tearing their hair out over Education Minister Peter Weir s confirmation that A-level students in Northern Ireland will take fewer exams next summer.
While insisting that exams will not be cancelled, Mr Weir told the Assembly recently that the number of A-level exam papers a pupil will have to take in each subject will be reduced.
The content of many GCSE courses, as well as the number of GCSE exams, has already been curtailed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
But Graham Gault principal of Maghaberry Primary and president of the local branch of the National Association of Head Teachers, said Mr Weir has left his members with more questions than answers.