Education Policy Institute calls for fully independent review of this year’s handling of results

@EduPolicyInst calls for fully independent review of this year’s handling of results   

“It’s crucial that the aftermath of the exams grading chaos isn’t just a blame game of background briefings where the Department for Education and the exams regulator seek to pass the parcel of responsibility between them.”

“We urgently need a fully independent review of what happened this year so that errors made are clearly understood and so that the right lessons are learned for the future. There is still a real risk of repeated exams disruption in 2021, and we need a better back up system than we have had this year.

“Abolishing Ofqual would be exactly the wrong step to take. There is little or no evidence to suggest that the Department for Education would do a better job of exam regulation, and much evidence that politicians are not the right people to make objective judgements on maintaining education standards.”