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.
- Tom Sheldrick
WJEC defends marking of GCSE English exams
Welsh exam board the WJEC has defended its marking of January's new GCSE English language exams - after thousands of pupils got lower grades than they'd expected.
A small number of papers are being remarked, because of inconsistency by one examiner - but the WJEC said the vast majority were marked correctly.
Opposition parties in the Senedd have this afternoon argued that there are still no anwers for pupils, parents or teachers over what's behind the shock low grades.
We have been taking a closer look at January's exam papers, to try to find out.
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