GCSE results WILL come out on Thursday as planned despite the exam chaos over A-level results, No10 confirmed today.
Boris Johnson broke off from his holiday with his fiance and baby son in Scotland to speak to the Education Secretary and other officials this morning.Students in Northern Ireland, along with Scotland, will be given predicted grades, rather than standardised marks.
He said the algorithm was flawed and had created "hundreds of thousands of unfair and barely explicable downgrades".Commons education committee chairman and Tory MP Robert Halfon said there may need to be a delay in releasing GCSE results. "Nor is it in the interest of schools, which should be focusing on their final preparations for reopening safely to all students in September.
What GCSE results? My daughter didn't get to sit any 😠😤
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