Shadow Minister for Education – Suzy Davies MS – has said that teacher-predicted grades must be applied to last week’s A-Level and GCSE results in Wales.
Welsh Conservative Mrs Davies said:
“Although no-one set out to create an unfair system that’s what we have ended up with. While I welcomed the Welsh Labour-led Government’s decision to allow appeals on the basis of actual achievement, the number of individual cases and the effect of uncertainty on our young people is just too great to risk that appeals system failing.
“We have listened to what our young people have told us about the real-life experience of being a statistic and what it means for their futures.
“The time has come for certainty and teachers’ grades give us that. We also need to rectify the injustice of too many students losing too many of their grades.
“With GCSE results due, the prospect of a greater number of pupils being asked to appeal a much greater number of qualifications means that any appeals system would just collapse.
“Let’s get on with freeing young people from the mess of this year, find out what went wrong, and make sure we’re not faced with this again.