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20 Aug 2020

Schools minister says resigning over exams would be ‘wrong thing to do’ because there will be an inquiry

Why weren’t those warnings heeded by the Westminster government?

We spoke to the Schools Minister for England Nick Gibb, and asked him about the warning, weeks ago, by the Department for Education’s former Director General Sir Jon Coles.

He told Mr Gibb that the system could lead to hundreds of thousands of students being given the wrong grades.