Coronavirus news- live: Protests and calls to postpone GCSE results as appeals ‘mess’ deepens A-level chaos
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Your support makes all the difference.Hundreds of protesters have filled the streets outside the Department for Education, after nearly 40 per cent of A-level marks were downgraded from teachers’ suggestions by a government algorithm.
Amid fears that GCSEs could be even harder hit, the former education secretary who introduced them, Lord Baker, urged current secretary Gavin Williamson to postpone the looming results, following the ”unfair and barely explicable downgrades” of A-levels.
Meanwhile, Matt Hancock was reportedly moving to abolish Public Health England and instead set up a new organisation set up to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, with the health secretary expected to announce that the pandemic response work of PHE will be merged with the NHS Test and Trace programme.
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