Welsh minister orders GCSE regrade
Welsh Education Minister Leighton Andrews has issued a direction to examination board WJEC to re-grade this summer's English GCSE English language results for qualifications delivered in Wales.
Number 10: Not the job of ministers to intervene
Education Secretary Michael Gove briefed ministers on his plans to reform GCSEs at this morning's meeting of Cabinet in 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister's spokesman said an announcement on the plans is expected soon. He said:
"Obviously, we sympathise with students who didn't get the grades they needed. But we have an independent regulator. It is the job of that regulator to make sure standards are maintained over time and it is not the job of ministers to intervene in that."
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Ofqual defends English GCSE results
Ofqual denied applying pressure to exam boards to change their grades, saying it was merely playing its proper role in regulating standards.
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Schools alliance demands GCSE probe
Schools alliance have announced they have formed an alliance to demand an independent inquiry into the GCSE English grading fiasco.
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Exams regulator Ofqual to probe GCSE results
Exams regulator, Ofqual is to look again at some GCSE English results amid claims that thousands of students have been treated unfairly.