Voters today send a message to Boris Johnson that his Government must not let down children again by failing to reopen schools next month. A Daily Mail poll reveals the depth of feeling about getting pupils back into class full time. A huge majority believe it should be the top priority for ministers. Most are … Read more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Great Escape descended into farce this afternoon after it emerged he had camped in a local sheep farmer’s field without permission. Applecross Landowner Kenny Cameron was left fuming today when he realised the PM and his fiancée Carrie Symonds had pitched their trendy eight foot bell tent on his land and … Read more
Gavin Williamson is ‘on his last life’ after his humiliating exams fiasco and will be sacked if Boris Johnson’s schools reopening is botched, ministers claim. The Education Secretary has defied calls to resign from MPs across the board following the disastrous A-level grading debacle. Cabinet members now believe that embattled Mr Williamson, who is desperately … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… Government’s exams fiasco By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:07 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 02:07 BST, 19 August 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this article:
Gavin Williamson was today savaged over the A-level and GCSE exams ‘farce’ by the British press which called for the Education Secretary to be sacked and described him as a ‘clown’. The Daily Mail used the headline ‘Another fine mess’, with a cartoon of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Mr Williamson as Laurel and Hardy, … Read more
This has reset the bar for incompetence: The exams grade scandal leaves us wondering how pupils will ever feel they can trust the system again, writes former Education Secretary DAVID BLUNKETT By David Blunkett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:47 BST, 17 August 2020 | Updated: 10:13 BST, 18 August 2020 The U-turn on A-level … Read more
A student who revised for exams while having chemotherapy has passed her A Levels with flying colours – and landed a place at a top university to study biomedical science after being inspired to become a doctor by the care she received. When Kira O’Connor Fitzgerald, 18, felt a mysterious chest pain during her GCSEs in June 2018, … Read more
‘I didn’t even get the chance to insist they gave me three A’s instead’ Jeremy Clarkson pokes fun at A-level exams chaos as he boasts about receiving a C and 2Us and is now ‘building a house in the Cotswolds’ Jeremy Clarkson posted his annual tweet to ‘reassure’ nervous A level students Teachers were asked … Read more
Students were given a ‘triple lock’ on their A-level and GCSE grades last night as ministers ripped up the system in the wake of the Scottish exams fiasco. Just 36 hours before A-level results are released, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said students could now opt for the grades they got in their mock exams. It means … Read more
Tens of thousands of Scottish pupils will get exam results based on their predicted grades after Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish government completed an embarrassing U-turn this afternoon. Her SNP administration bowed to political pressure to alter course over a ‘standardisation’ system designed to tackle the fact that no exams have been sat due to coronavirus. The … Read more