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Newton Emerson: North’s grading mess shows pointlessness of GCSEs

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Ditching exams at 16 could let Northern Ireland transform its faltering school system

Kylie McComb, Kathleen Malone, and Ruben Hughes protest in Belfast over grading by algorithm on Monday. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

It feels as if all the long-denied problems with Northern Ireland’s education system have suddenly come to a head. Attempting to calculate A-level results by algorithm has emphasised social divisions in school achievement, which are worse in the North than in any other part of the UK.

 

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