Submitted on Sunday 19th March 2017
Rejected on Sunday 26th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Reschedule examinations to avoid clash with Ramadan.
Ramadan is a month of compulsory fasting from dawn to dusk for muslims across the world, Ramadan in the next few years will clash with major examinations in both schools and universities in the UK, which will inevitably handicap the academic preformance of thousands of students.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about the dates of exams are taken by exam boards, not by the UK Government or Parliament.
You may be interested in this statement made by the Joint Council for Qualifications, which is a membership organisation comprising the seven largest providers of qualifications in the UK:
http://www.jcq.org.uk/media-centre/news-releases/jcq-statement---exam-timetables
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