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.
318 English Language GCSE papers to be re-marked
The WJEC says the number of papers due to be re-marked amounts to less than 1% of the total number marked overall.
The Welsh Conservatives have hit out at the findings, saying they "fail to explain" low results received by pupils.
“Students, teachers and parents remain in the dark about how many exam papers will be remarked and how their overall grades will be affected" said Shadow Minister for Education Angela Burns AM.
“It remains extraordinary that so many pupils have ended up with results several grades below what they had been predicted and that WJEC and Welsh Government modelling didn’t foresee this fiasco and issue warnings accordingly."
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