Children wave to friends from separate classes during an online assembly, as normal assemblies will not take place at the moment, on their first day of school at Holne Chase Primary School, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Milton Keynes, Britain, September 3, 2020. — Reuters pic
Williamson was accused of overseeing a fiasco this summer over how results were awarded to teenagers unable to take their exams because of the crisis, after the mathematical model used to assess teacher’s predictions lowered grades for almost 40 per cent of students taking their main school-leaving exams.
“Exams are the fairest way of judging a student’s performance so they will go ahead, underpinned by contingency measures developed in partnership with the sector,” said Williamson.