A senior Tory MP said: 'It is 50:50 that exams go ahead next summer.'
Pupils wear masks as they return to St Paul’s High School in Glasgow earlier this month
Conservative MP Robert Halfon has urged exams regulator Ofqual to be set an October deadline to decide whether to scrap exams in 2021 and again award grades on teachers’ assessments. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has also been under intense pressure after the U-turn, which saw a controversial algorithm abandoned in favour of relying on teachers’ assessments of the grades pupils should receive.‘It is 50:50 that exams go ahead next summer,’ Mr Halfon told The Sunday Times.
‘Serious analysis needs to be done and then they need to make an announcement about exams within the next few weeks.’
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