Oldham joins GCSE rebellion

OLDHAM is adding its voice to a nationwide rebellion against England’s exams regulator.

The council has backed a judicial review against Ofqual after it admitted GCSE English grade boundaries had been changed between January and June.

Resits have been offered to affected pupils rather than an automatic regrading of downgraded GCSE exam papers.

Oldham Council has agreed to join the call for a judicial review following talks with local secondary schools.

Councillor Hugh McDonald, Cabinet member for Education and Safeguarding, said: “It’s not possible to say how many local students might have been affected. But even if it is only one then it is right that we fight for their cause. Students have worked hard for years only for the goalposts to be moved at the last minute.

“We believe the Department of Education should have followed the Welsh Assembly in ordering a remark of the original examination papers.”






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