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P-05-1025 Ensure fairness for students taking exams in 2021

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Meeting: 09/02/2021 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the correspondence received and, in light of the petitioners satisfaction with the decision that learners due to take GCSE, AS and A-Level assessments in 2021 would instead receive Centre-Determined Grades, the Committee agreed to close the petition and to thank and congratulate the petitioners for their work.


Meeting: 15/12/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

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Minutes:

The Committee noted the further correspondence received and the outline of the steps that are being taken to adapt course content and assessment within the regulatory framework. The Committee agreed to write to Qualifications Wales to seek their response to the petition and the additional information recently provided by the petitioners and the WJEC, before considering whether there is any further action that it could take.

 


Meeting: 13/10/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to:

 

·         await the findings of the independent review currently being conducted into the awarding of grades in 2020 and 2021 and decisions expected to be made shortly by the Minister for Education; and

·         write to the WJEC to ask for a response to the petitioners’ concerns over the differences in approach to adapting course content being taken in relation to individual subjects, and the call for increased optionality in examination papers if course content is not reduced.