Submitted on Sunday 22nd March 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 15th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Provide BTEC students with their expected grade due to college closures.
Provide all BTEC students with their expected grades, the same as A-Level and GCSE students have been.
Now that A-Level and GCSE students will be provided with their expected grades, why should BTEC students not, as they are experiencing the same disruption due to COVID-19 with college closures, which will result in them receiving lower grades as many are working with limited access to teaching and learning resources, having the same effect as lower overall attendance. (See https://tinyurl.com/GovStudyOnAttendance and https://tinyurl.com/GovReleaseOnAttendance)
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about exams are a matter for exam boards and individual schools, not the UK Government or Parliament. You can read the Government's announcement about what will happen to exams here: www.gov.uk/government/news/further-details-on-exams-and-grades-announced
Ofqual has stated that it is working with awarding organisations to finalise a list of qualifications that we will advise the Secretary of State should be in scope for learners to receive a calculated result, and this will include many BTEC Nationals: www.gov.uk/government/news/awarding-vocational-and-technical-qualifications-this-summer
If you want the Government to review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades, you may wish to sign this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773
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