GCSE row: Unions urge WJEC to waive resit fees
Unions NAHT Cymru & ASCL Cymru have written a joint letter to WJEC, asking it to waive fees for re-sitting GCSE English Language units this summer.
Union presents GCSE grades evidence from 100 schools
Headteachers' union ASCL is today presenting evidence from 100 Welsh secondary schools into shock low GCSE English language grades to the Education Minister Huw Lewis.
The Welsh Government and the exam board WJEC are both holding urgent investigations into what happened in the first exams sat as part of a new GCSE for Wales alone.
The Education Minister has accused headteachers in Rhondda Cynon Taf of 'reckless scaremongering', after they sent him a letter describing a loss of faith in the exam system and arguing pupils should be allowed to re-sit the January exams in the summer, free of charge.
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