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Remote Education: Qualifications

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Question for Department for Education

UIN 115032, tabled on 12 November 2020

Question

Darren Henry
Conservative
Broxtowe
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that home-educated students are taken account of when his Department is forming its policy on the sitting of GCSE, AS and A-level examinations due to take place in 2021.

Answer

Nick Gibb
Conservative
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Commons

Answered on

19 November 2020

Examinations are the best and fairest way of judging pupils’ performance, and it is the Department’s intention that next year’s GCSE, AS and A level exam series will go ahead.

The Department is working with Ofqual to engage with the sector, including those representing home-educated pupils, to develop contingencies if disruption as a result of COVID-19 affects pupils’ ability to sit examinations. Following a period of engagement, more details will be published later in the autumn.

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Department for Education
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