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P-05-1025 Ensure fairness for students taking exams in 2021
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Meeting: 09/02/2021 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3
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- 12.01.21 Correspondence - Qualifications Wales to the Committee, item 3
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- 03.02.21 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee, item 3
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Minutes:
The Committee considered the
correspondence received and, in light of the petitioners satisfaction
with the decision that learners due to take GCSE, AS and A-Level assessments in
2021 would instead receive Centre-Determined Grades, the Committee agreed to
close the petition and to thank and congratulate the petitioners for their
work.
Meeting: 15/12/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3
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- 16.11.20 Correspondence from the WJEC to the Chair, item 3
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- 07.12.20 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee, item 3
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Minutes:
The Committee noted the further correspondence received and
the outline of the steps that are being taken to adapt course content and
assessment within the regulatory framework. The Committee agreed to write to
Qualifications Wales to seek their response to the petition and the additional
information recently provided by the petitioners and the WJEC, before
considering whether there is any further action that it could take.
Meeting: 13/10/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 2
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- Research Brief, item 2
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- 14.09.20 Correspondence – Minister for Education to the Chair, item 2
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- 05.10.20 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee, item 2
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Minutes:
The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to:
· await the findings of the independent review currently being conducted into the awarding of grades in 2020 and 2021 and decisions expected to be made shortly by the Minister for Education; and
·
write to the WJEC to ask for a response to the
petitioners’ concerns over the differences in approach to adapting course
content being taken in relation to individual subjects, and the call for
increased optionality in examination papers if course content is not reduced.