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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.

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Ofqual: Fair to allow students to re-sit exams

The head of exams regulator Ofqual, Glenys Stacey, told MPs told the Commons Education Committee that if January's grade boundaries had been applied to June's students, there would have been grade inflation of 5 or 6%.

What we have seen so far, and we have nothing to doubt it, and don't expect to doubt it, is that the June boundary setting occurred properly.

That does, as I say, leave us all in a very uncomfortable position, and we have thought carefully about fairness, and we keep on thinking about it. We do think the right thing to do is to offer a re-sit opportunity to those students.

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