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SQA exam changes to stay in place for another school year
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Exam reforms
Apr 28, 2022
SQA: Covid-era course modifications to remain next year
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Apr 28, 2022
SQA exams return in Scotland, but Covid cloud remains
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Apr 25, 2022
Scotland: Exam grading 'must allow for disruption faced by students'
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Apr 8, 2022
Scotland: Exam body SQA 'has army of spin doctors'
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Apr 5, 2022
Scottish teachers hit out at SQA over exam support
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Apr 1, 2022
SQA under fire over 'petulant' attacks on education advisor
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Mar 24, 2022
SQA crisis: Government advisor asks if exam bosses are fit to remain
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Mar 23, 2022
Ken Muir: SQA rebrand would mean six months of work wasted
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Mar 23, 2022
'SQA needs to deliver and change now' ahead of 2024 scrapping, says Kenneth Muir
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Mar 23, 2022
Real reform not re-branding needed in replacing SQA
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Mar 10, 2022
'Qualifications Scotland' and new education agency to replace SQA and Education Scotland
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Mar 9, 2022
Scottish education agencies to be replaced by 2024
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Mar 9, 2022
Scotland: Launch of Muir report on SQA reform branded ‘chaotic’
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Mar 9, 2022
Scotland: Future plans for SQA must not detract from current failures
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Mar 9, 2022
Anything but the SQA's total abolition is likely to fail students
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Mar 9, 2022
Scotland: Exam body mocked for ‘insulting’ tips on spelling
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Mar 9, 2022
SQA exams: SNP Education Secretary dragged into revision support row
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Mar 8, 2022
SQA defend 'patronising' exam support materials amid pupil and teacher anger in Scotland
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Mar 8, 2022
SNP under pressure to speed up scrapping of SQA
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Mar 8, 2022
Teachers hit out at SQA study support published by mistake
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Mar 8, 2022
SQA reform: SNP ministers in education 'secrecy' row
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Feb 23, 2022
Scotland: SQA exam board ‘tried to save its skin by editing critical report’
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Feb 17, 2022
SQA accused of seeking to edit landmark education report
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Feb 16, 2022
Scotland: Fewer than 2% SQA appeals result in grade changes
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Dec 7, 2021
Scotland: Digitise schooling to let teachers escape class, says education body
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Dec 2, 2021
Scotland: SQA backs a new joint curriculum and assessment body
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Dec 1, 2021
No compulsory redundancies at SQA, vows Somerville
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Nov 23, 2021
'Bizarre': Row over threat to Scots exams after 84.4% back industrial action over plans to scrap SQA
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Nov 23, 2021
New fear over strikes hitting Scots exams as 84.4% back industrial action in row over plans to scrap SQA
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Nov 22, 2021
SNP urged to act as strikes set to cause Scots exams 'chaos' over plans to scrap SQA
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Nov 10, 2021
SQA strike action could disrupt exams, warns union
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Nov 8, 2021
Strikes set to hit Scots exams in row over plans to scrap SQA
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Nov 8, 2021
Scotland: No action taken by SQA over sharing of exams online
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Oct 27, 2021
Exams and assessment 2022: New SQA guidance on producing teacher estimates
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Oct 26, 2021
Need to know: SQA exams 2022
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Oct 12, 2021
SQA should help pupils suffering from 2020's exams scandal to prove its human rights credentials
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Oct 5, 2021
SQA exams: CBI Scotland policy chief in call for overhaul
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Oct 4, 2021
SQA 'failure' on human rights duties leads to resignation demands
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Sep 30, 2021
SQA resignations demanded over equality failings
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Sep 30, 2021
SQA boss faces calls to quit over equality failures
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Sep 30, 2021
Scotland: Boss of SQA exams board accused of blaming others for pandemic grades fiasco
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Sep 30, 2021
SQA results: Private schools extend lead over state sector
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Sep 21, 2021
Scotland: State and private sector attainment gap hit low in 2020
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Sep 21, 2021
No additional assessments if exams cancelled, vows SQA
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Sep 15, 2021
On the SQA and Scottish school exams: We need to redefine success
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Aug 20, 2021
Scottish Qualifications Authority limps on into next year
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Aug 20, 2021
Panel tasked with scrapping SQA and reforming Education Scotland to complete work within six months
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Aug 19, 2021
SQA and Education Scotland reform team is revealed
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Aug 19, 2021
SQA: Exam contingency will require no extra assessments
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Aug 18, 2021
SQA results day 2021 follows a year like no other
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Aug 9, 2021
SQA results 2021: Are exams best guarantee of fairness?
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Aug 9, 2021
SQA results 2021: Don't scrap exams in push for change
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Aug 9, 2021
SQA results 2021: Don't scrap exams in push for change
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Aug 8, 2021
SQA results 2021: What now after most stressful year?
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Aug 8, 2021
SQA results day 2021: how we got here
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Aug 5, 2021
SQA boss on exams turmoil and 18 months of Covid
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Aug 4, 2021
SQA chief refuses to apologise over last year's grades debacle
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Aug 4, 2021
Scotland: Ministers ignored calls four years ago to reform education quango
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Jul 13, 2021
Big question on exams by OECD has no rote answers
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Jun 27, 2021
SNP 'open' to changing exam system as Ken Muir to oversee SQA replacement
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Jun 22, 2021
Replacing SQA as Scottish exams body will not happen overnight, says education secretary
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Jun 22, 2021
SQA replacement 'will take time', says Somerville
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Jun 22, 2021
Scottish Qualifications Authority: Education Secretary says 'change will take time'
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Jun 22, 2021
Why is the SQA being scrapped and what does it mean for your children?
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Jun 22, 2021
Education reform: 'Writing was on the wall for the SQA'
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Jun 21, 2021
Scotland’s school exams body to be scrapped
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Jun 21, 2021
Scottish Qualifications Authority to be scrapped after OECD review
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Jun 21, 2021
Calls for sweeping reform as SQA scrapped following OECD report recommendations
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Jun 21, 2021
SQA to be replaced as part of wide-sweeping reforms
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Jun 21, 2021
SQA to be replaced, education secretary reveals
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Jun 21, 2021
Scotland’s councils ‘in discussions’ in bid to claw back millions paid to SQA
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Jun 18, 2021
Scotland: Leaked exam papers used to 'determine’ Higher results
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Jun 17, 2021
Scottish councils launch talks with SQA over exam fees
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Jun 17, 2021
Exam cancellations save millions for second year
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Jun 16, 2021
SQA deadline for Scottish grades appeal pushed back by a week
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Jun 15, 2021
Scotland: Plan for grade checks during summer holidays attacked
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Jun 14, 2021
Don't reform SQA – replace it, says teaching union boss
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Jun 11, 2021
Scotland: What did the education secretary tell teachers today?
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Jun 11, 2021
SQA crisis: Education Secretary warns against grade changes
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Jun 11, 2021
Warnings SQA 'algorithm by stealth' could replicate 2020 fiasco
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Jun 8, 2021
Why hasn't the SQA taken teachers' advice on grading?
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Jun 4, 2021
Scotland: Exams and inspections face overhaul
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Jun 4, 2021
SNP orders overhaul of Scotland's education system following storm of criticism
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Jun 3, 2021
SQA crisis: Nicola Sturgeon confuses parents
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Jun 3, 2021
Scottish exams body to be reformed amid grades row
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Jun 3, 2021
SQA and Education Scotland set to undergo reform
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Jun 3, 2021
SQA and Education Scotland to be reformed
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Jun 3, 2021
SQA and Education Scotland to be reformed
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Jun 3, 2021
Reform of SQA and Education Scotland must be more than a cosmetic exercise
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Jun 3, 2021
Nicola Sturgeon: I have full confidence in the SQA
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Jun 3, 2021
SQA faces no confidence vote at Holyrood as crisis deepens
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Jun 3, 2021
Scotland: Pupils face grade appeals ‘gamble’
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Jun 3, 2021
SQA appeals: Education Secretary at centre of growing storm
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Jun 2, 2021
SQA appeals statement leaves no hope for those hit by Covid-19
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Jun 2, 2021
Young people forced to take 'perverse gamble' on grades after Scottish appeal process revealed
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Jun 2, 2021
Appeals announcement reinforces that SQA is not fit for purpose
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Jun 2, 2021
SQA appeals: Pupils given right to challenge grades directly
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Jun 2, 2021
SQA appeals 2021: Grades could go down as well as up
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Jun 2, 2021
School exam data used to spot ‘unexpected’ grades
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Jun 2, 2021
New bid to secure SQA and Education Scotland reform
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Jun 1, 2021
SQA crisis: Glasgow schools boss calls for grades overhaul
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May 29, 2021
Scotland: Assessment is unfair in 2021, say most teachers
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May 28, 2021
Parents use survey to ‘bemoan’ SQA performance
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May 27, 2021
SQA appeals: Education Secretary to make statement next week
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May 26, 2021
Statement on 2021 appeals process expected next week
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May 26, 2021
SQA criticised for holding teachers and pupils in 'contempt' as statement on appeals expected next week
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May 26, 2021
SQA 2021 appeals process: the wait for details goes on
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May 25, 2021
Sturgeon: We won't have another qualifications fiasco
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May 21, 2021
SQA appeals details not expected until next week
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May 20, 2021
SQA 'misses deadline' to confirm appeals process for exams in 2021
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May 20, 2021
Scotland: Teachers and students boxed in by assessment rules
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May 18, 2021
SQA crisis: John Swinney told alternative assessment is 'new parliament's first scandal'
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May 14, 2021
SQA crisis: Schools 'face chaos' due to results extension
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May 14, 2021
John Swinney warned over SQA results 'disaster'
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May 12, 2021
SQA warns of penalties for 'exam' details on TikTok
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May 10, 2021
Exam questions shared on TikTok ‘SQA black market’
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May 10, 2021
Scotland: Parties fail test on future of education
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Apr 25, 2021
SQA: 'No requirement to replicate full formal exams'
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Apr 13, 2021
SQA row: EIS warns schools against prelim-style 'diets'
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Apr 8, 2021
SQA at centre of fresh row over pupil appeals
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Mar 26, 2021
NASUWT rejects SQA plans for grading appeals
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Mar 26, 2021
Petition calls for SQA to end 'exams in all but name'
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Mar 26, 2021
Consultation on 2021 SQA appeals process goes live
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Mar 12, 2021
SQA under fire: Exams body 'so untrusted', MSPs warned
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Mar 10, 2021
SQA exams 2021: 5 things we learned about what's replacing them
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Mar 5, 2021
SQA has been dumbing down languages exams for years
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Feb 25, 2021
Education Scotland: Defeat for John Swinney
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Feb 17, 2021
Scottish Government education bodies ‘cannot be trusted’, MSPs told
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Feb 17, 2021
SQA and Education Scotland reform demanded by MSPs
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Feb 17, 2021
New SQA timeline for grading: what you need to know
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Feb 17, 2021
Pressure mounts to reform SQA and Education Scotland
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Feb 16, 2021
Scotland: Greens call for SQA board to resign after Covid chaos
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Feb 12, 2021
Speaking removed from modern languages qualifications
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Jan 29, 2021
Scotland: Schools deserve far better than this hapless exam body
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Jan 4, 2021
Scotland: Experts call for abolition of ‘arrogant’ exam body
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Jan 4, 2021
Exams decision below the mark
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Dec 20, 2020
Scotland exams cancellation 'does nothing' to reduce unfairness of school Covid-19 impact
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Dec 13, 2020
Exam body upholds 55 appeals on discrimination grounds
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Dec 2, 2020
Scotland: Take up the guitar to reduce risk, singers told by SQA
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Nov 28, 2020
SQA’s baffling approach to assessment in the light of Covid is letting pupils down
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Nov 15, 2020
Concerns that Scots teachers will be expected to 'run National 5 exams'
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Nov 15, 2020
12 key messages from experts who explored SQA debacle
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Nov 12, 2020
SQA exams delayed by two weeks in response to Covid
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Nov 5, 2020
Why we need to make the SQA listen to teachers
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Nov 4, 2020
SQA reveals details for 2020-21 national qualifications
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Nov 2, 2020
John Swinney responds directly to exam results 'cover-up' accusations over summer meetings with SQA
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Oct 30, 2020
How students harmed by 2020 results have been forgotten
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Oct 23, 2020
SQA and Scottish Government accused of 'cover-up' over claim of no written record of eight meetings involving John Swinney
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Oct 22, 2020
Schools that had 50% of results downgraded revealed
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Oct 19, 2020
Covid: Cancellation of Scotland's National 5 exams raises a question: do they really matter?
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Oct 13, 2020
Hundreds faced five or more grades being downgraded as SNP accused of 'knowingly failing' Scottish pupils
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Oct 10, 2020
Critics vindicated by Scottish exams report as SQA continue to deny obvious
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Oct 10, 2020
SQA was far more likely to downgrade state students
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Oct 9, 2020
Priestley review of SQA results fiasco: 17 key findings
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Oct 8, 2020
SQA results fiasco could have been 'partially avoided'
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Oct 7, 2020
More details emerge of exam cancellation plans
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Sep 20, 2020
Swinney under fire over SQA grade appeals process
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Sep 16, 2020
Was this the day we learned 2021 exams won't go ahead?
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Sep 16, 2020
John Swinney: Scottish exams at a ‘very real risk’ of disruption again next year
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Sep 16, 2020
SQA exams update delayed after rise in Covid cases
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Sep 16, 2020
Swinney still wants to see exams run in full in 2021
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Sep 11, 2020
Swinney reassured by SQA days before results published
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Sep 9, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Swinney given a five-day warning over downgrades
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Sep 9, 2020
Teachers' wait for key course details extended again
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Sep 7, 2020
Students start receiving revised SQA certificates
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Sep 7, 2020
SQA to miss its deadline for publishing exam changes
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Sep 4, 2020
Will the SQA listen to teachers on exam changes?
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Sep 3, 2020
SQA appeals: 'No student should be disadvantaged'
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Sep 2, 2020
SQA appeals system still 'not fit for purpose' as students blocked from appealing
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Sep 1, 2020
Heads call for cancellation and shortening of SQA exams
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Aug 28, 2020
Huge response to SQA consultation on 2021 exams
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Aug 28, 2020
Scottish exams authority paid £140k to private firms to remark grades
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Aug 28, 2020
What's the back-up plan if 2021 SQA exams are scrapped?
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Aug 27, 2020
SQA proposals ‘inadequate, lack insight and too late’
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Aug 26, 2020
SQA told to draw up plans to 'rebuild trust' as concerns remain over appeals
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Aug 22, 2020
Students deserve a fresh look at SQA grades process
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Aug 21, 2020
Students deserve fresh look at SQA grades process
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Aug 21, 2020
SQA results: 'Urgent need for student-centred appeals'
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Aug 20, 2020
SQA to respond to all appeals by end of September
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Aug 19, 2020
Children's commissioner: 'SQA results failed students'
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Aug 19, 2020
We must look far and wide for an assessment solution
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Aug 18, 2020
SQA launches two consultations on 2021 exams
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Aug 14, 2020
'Failed the Scottish people!' Labour's Leonard furiously attacks Swinney for exam fiasco
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Aug 13, 2020
Swinney survives no confidence vote after exams fiasco, following 'pact' with Greens
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Aug 13, 2020
Scotland's education secretary John Swinney survives no-confidence vote
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No confidence vote
Aug 13, 2020
No-confidence motion defeated after Sturgeon backs Education Secretary
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Aug 13, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: John Swinney survives no-confidence vote over exams fiasco
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Aug 13, 2020
SQA results: John Swinney survives no-confidence vote
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Aug 13, 2020
SQA results: The 'exams debacle' without exams
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Aug 13, 2020
How the SQA defended the results fiasco
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Aug 13, 2020
Serious doubt over independence of SQA exams system
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Aug 13, 2020
Sturgeon dismisses calls to sack education secretary
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Aug 12, 2020
SQA results: 'Take the luck out of assessment'
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Aug 12, 2020
SQA chief fails to apologise for exams fiasco
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Aug 12, 2020
SQA: ‘We did what we were told on results moderation’
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Aug 12, 2020
SQA results U-turn: 'I am dreading the next few weeks'
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Aug 12, 2020
Swinney: 'Covid trauma changed my mind on SQA results'
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Aug 12, 2020
Fiasco as Scottish government U-turn hands pupils the exam grades they were predicted by teachers
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Aug 11, 2020
SQA results U-turn: College places to be made available
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Aug 11, 2020
'It's not enough Nicola!' SNP savaged over 'long list of education failures' after U-turn
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Aug 11, 2020
SQA results: 'Swinney's announcement is momentous'
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Aug 11, 2020
Scottish school pupils have results upgraded
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Aug 11, 2020
SNP humiliated: Swinney makes embarrassing exam results u-turn as he scrambles to save job
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Aug 11, 2020
All 125,000 Scottish Higher grades which were marked down are overturned and replaced with teachers’ marks
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Aug 11, 2020
Swinney to reverse 124,000 qualification downgrades following exams results day outrage
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Aug 11, 2020
Scottish government overturns exam results for 124,000 students in major fiasco
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Aug 11, 2020
Scottish government U-turns over students' grades after outcry
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Aug 11, 2020
Scotland withdraws all downgraded exam grades
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Aug 11, 2020
Sturgeon apologises after outcry over exam results downgraded by ‘deprivation algorithm’
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Aug 11, 2020
Scotland U-turns and gives all exam pupils the grades their teacher recommended
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Aug 11, 2020
SQA results: All downgraded results to be withdrawn
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Aug 11, 2020
Over 100,000 Scottish exam grades to be reinstated after row
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Aug 11, 2020
Scotland: Pupils will now receive original predicted grades after 100,000 results scrapped
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Aug 11, 2020
Education Secretary to address exam results controversy
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Aug 11, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: No pupil will suffer for our mistakes, Sturgeon promises
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Aug 11, 2020
The Times view on the Highers fiasco: Bottom of Class
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Aug 11, 2020
Sturgeon sorry for exams fiasco and admits student outrage a 'bigger problem' than grade inflation
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Aug 10, 2020
Swinney should go — but he probably won’t | Alex Massie
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Aug 10, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon apologises to tens of thousands of Scottish pupils over exams chaos
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Aug 10, 2020
Humiliated Nicola Sturgeon vows to 'tear up' grades for Scottish pupils after 'standardising' fiasco
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Aug 10, 2020
'I'm sorry' Nicola Sturgeon forced to make embarrassing U-turn on Scottish exam results
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Aug 10, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon 'sorry' over Scottish exam results
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Aug 10, 2020
Sturgeon promises urgent review of 124,000 downgraded exam results
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Aug 10, 2020
Sturgeon on SQA results: 'We did not get this right'
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Aug 10, 2020
Children’s commissioner demands action over SQA results
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Aug 10, 2020
Scotland: Humiliated Swinney in bid to quell exams row
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Aug 10, 2020
Harsh lesson: John Swinney must repair an unfair grading system that hurt disadvantaged pupils
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Aug 10, 2020
John Swinney set to announce rethink as fury over exams grows
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Aug 9, 2020
Swinney to 'address' SQA results anger on Tuesday
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Aug 9, 2020
Labour to table motion of no confidence in Swinney
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No confidence vote
Aug 7, 2020
SNP crisis: No confidence motion filed against Sturgeon's deputy after exam results chaos
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Aug 7, 2020
Swinney faces no confidence motion from Labour and Tories despite evidence being based on 'meaningless date'
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Aug 7, 2020
Labour demands SNP education secretary quits after poorer pupils have exam grades lowered
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Aug 7, 2020
The SQA results debacle reveals deeper weaknesses
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Aug 7, 2020
Sturgeon humiliated: Hundreds of students gather in protest chanting 'no classist SQA'
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Aug 7, 2020
'John Swinney should resign', says letter from deprived Edinburgh school's parents forum
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Aug 7, 2020
SQA results: Protests against 'completely unfair' marks
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Aug 7, 2020
Furious Scottish students slam 'classist' exam board after a quarter of results were downgraded with poorest areas hardest hit
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Aug 7, 2020
SQA results: Why the failure to report racial bias?
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Aug 7, 2020
Pupils offered hope in fight against exam downgrades
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Aug 7, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon admits she would have joined Glasgow protests
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Aug 7, 2020
SQA results: 'Devastated' student writes to John Swinney
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Aug 6, 2020
SQA chief to face MSPs over results controversy
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Aug 6, 2020
Sturgeon: I would 'very possibly' have joined in protest against my own exams policy
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Aug 6, 2020
I could have joined SQA protest, admits Sturgeon
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Aug 6, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon shamed: First Minister and SNP denounced for 'letting down' a generation
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Aug 6, 2020
SQA chief executive to be grilled by MSPs over exams moderation fiasco
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Aug 6, 2020
Sturgeon crisis: SNP could face legal challenge following ‘ludicrous’ exam results process
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Aug 6, 2020
SQA results: Petition nears 30,000 and protest planned
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Aug 6, 2020
SQA exam system has largely maintained the status quo
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Aug 6, 2020
SQA results day 2020: What SQA said about moderation
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Aug 6, 2020
Education expert: lower grades were reasonable
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Aug 6, 2020
Swinney under mounting pressure after exams day 'debacle'
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Aug 5, 2020
SQA results: Spare a thought for older learners
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Aug 5, 2020
The Scottish government has got it badly wrong over its exam results
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Aug 5, 2020
SQA results day 2020: Analysis of SQA's methodology
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Aug 5, 2020
SQA results: 'Scottish education failed in three ways'
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Aug 5, 2020
SQA results: 'Sense of injustice on whole other level'
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Aug 5, 2020
Fears teachers will be 'overwhelmed' by SQA exam appeals after 'large-scale injustice'
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Aug 5, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: 100,000 appeals looming after exam body gives out lower grades
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Aug 5, 2020
Scottish Qualifications Authority has failed children in every way | Lindsay Paterson
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Aug 5, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: High-flying student went from ‘a predicted A to an F’ in exam results
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Aug 5, 2020
The Times view on the changing of exam marks by the Scottish Qualifications Authority: Failing Grades
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Aug 5, 2020
SQA results: 'Am I dishonest? Am I unprofessional?'
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Aug 4, 2020
Poorest pupils hit hardest as exam results downgraded in UK's first Covid moderation
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Aug 4, 2020
Scotland's exam body 'in crisis' after decision to downgrade 124,000 results sparks furious backlash
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Aug 4, 2020
Almost 125,000 students see predicted grades lowered on Scottish exam results day
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA results day 2020 – by the numbers
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Aug 4, 2020
SNP MP Mhairi Black calls for Scottish Government to investigate SQA exam moderation
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Aug 4, 2020
CBI Scotland responds to SQA results day
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA was warned about impact on disadvantaged students
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Aug 4, 2020
Poorest far more likely to have Higher pass downgraded
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Aug 4, 2020
Demands for SQA to explain moderation as downgraded pupils will not be able to resit exams
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Aug 4, 2020
Increase in number of Scottish students accepted into university on results day
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Aug 4, 2020
Top student given F after exam is marked ‘based on school’s poor history’
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Aug 4, 2020
Scottish exam chaos as almost 25% of pupils' results marked down after teachers gave best pass rate ever
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Aug 4, 2020
Sturgeon defends SQA after exams pass rate reduction hits poorest pupils hardest
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA results day: Why there really is no wrong path
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA results: Fewer students taking Highers at college
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Aug 4, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon faces onslaught of anger after 96% of Scotland A level results downgraded
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Aug 4, 2020
17 reasons why today’s SQA results aren't everything
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA chief: ‘Teachers may have been optimistic’
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA under fire after downgrading 124,000 predicted exam results
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Aug 4, 2020
How SQA Highers and National 5 exams are being marked this year
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA under fire after thousands of pupils' grades lowered based on schools' past performance
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Aug 4, 2020
Scottish exam results day: 125,000 pupils receive downgraded result as overall pass rate rises
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA results day: 25% of teacher estimates 'adjusted'
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Aug 4, 2020
Exam body braced for record appeals as Scots pupils receive their results
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Aug 4, 2020
SQA results day 2020: students' hopes and fears
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Aug 3, 2020
SQA results day 2020 – what to look out for
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Aug 3, 2020
This will be an SQA results day without precedent
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Aug 2, 2020
Scotland: Young people can still flourish despite missing exams
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Aug 2, 2020
I have no idea what I'll get in exams I didn't sit
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Jul 31, 2020
SQA results day: 'Grades not sole measure of success'
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Jul 30, 2020
SQA exam results day 2020: How to make appeals
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Jul 30, 2020
On SQA exam results day, 'there will be turmoil'
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Jul 29, 2020
SQA results day 2020: What you need to know
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Jul 29, 2020
SQA exams 2021: How will pupils sit Highers next year?
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Jul 9, 2020
SQA undermines teacher professionalism
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Jul 1, 2020
Private schools tell SQA ‘give us back our money’
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Jun 10, 2020
Scottish students' appeals could lead to lower grades
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Jun 3, 2020
National 5 and Higher exams should be scrapped next year, claims Scotland's largest teaching union
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May 24, 2020
Fears raised over legality of SQA grades process
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May 11, 2020
Why the key to exam reform in Scotland may lie in the past
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May 10, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Ranking system ‘unfair on poor but gifted pupils’
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May 9, 2020
MSPs highlight 'deep unease' of teachers at qualifications overhaul
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May 8, 2020
Lockdown changes to Scottish exams and student ranking sparks deep unease with teachers
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May 8, 2020
Lockdown changes to Scottish exams and student ranking sparks 'deep unease' with teachers
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May 8, 2020
SQA needs to take the teaching profession into its confidence
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May 6, 2020
SQA grilled over fairness of system replacing exams
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May 1, 2020
Sturgeon: Qualifications process 'very clear'
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Apr 30, 2020
It’s impossible to meet the SQA grading demands
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Apr 28, 2020
Exam body to be questioned by MSPs
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Apr 27, 2020
John Swinney confirms SQA will fail pupils despite teachers' judgement
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Apr 24, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Exam chiefs defy Swinney over school result claims
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Apr 24, 2020
SQA responds to concerns about new system for grading
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Apr 22, 2020
Pupils' submitted coursework will not be marked this year, SQA says
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Apr 2, 2020
Coronavirus: SQA issues new exam grade guidance
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Apr 2, 2020
Scotland: Pupils’ work will not be marked
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Mar 25, 2020
Pupils' coursework will not be marked this year, SQA says
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Mar 24, 2020
Coronavirus: SQA says pupils do not have to submit coursework to pass exams
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Mar 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Pupils’ coursework will not be marked this year, SQA says
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Mar 24, 2020
Coronavirus: SQA says no coursework required this year
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Mar 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Who's to come to school in Scotland? What councils say
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Mar 22, 2020
Coronavirus: Dismay grows over numbers in schools
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Mar 22, 2020
SQA pledges to 'ensure that their hard work is rightly and fairly recognised' after exams are cancelled
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Mar 19, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: SQA statement on exams
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Mar 18, 2020
Plans to return exam scripts to students ‘are on path’
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Jan 23, 2020
SQA exam body announces review of National 3 and 4
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Jan 22, 2020
English teaching is hard - so we must work together
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Jan 5, 2020
Police launch fraud probe into Scotland's national school exam body
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Dec 9, 2019
Exams body officials' £17k bill for Saudi stay
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Dec 9, 2019
Scotland: SQA staff claim £17,000 for stay in luxury hotel
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Dec 8, 2019
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Sep 11, 2019
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Aug 7, 2019
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Aug 6, 2019
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SQA results 2019: Higher computing entries fall by 21%
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Aug 6, 2019
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Aug 6, 2019
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Aug 6, 2019
SQA exam results: Pupils across Scotland to find out grades
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Aug 5, 2019
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Aug 5, 2019
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Aug 2, 2019
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Jul 29, 2019
SQA exam body selling its services 'all over planet'
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Jun 28, 2019
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Jun 24, 2019
Strike at Scotland's exam body called off as chief executive apologises to staff
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Jun 21, 2019
Scotland: SQA faces risk of walkouts before results delivery
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Jun 14, 2019
Scottish exam board staff set to strike on results day
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Jun 13, 2019
Scotland: Delay fears over exam results as first ever SQA strikes announced
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Jun 13, 2019
SQA staff to strike on exam results day
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Jun 13, 2019
Judge Curriculum for Excellence on whole senior phase, SQA boss tells MSPs
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May 22, 2019
Credibility of Scotland's National 4 qualifications a 'huge challenge'
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May 22, 2019
Scottish exam workers back strike action
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May 10, 2019
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May 4, 2019
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May 2, 2019
Scottish Qualifications Authority appoints new chief executive
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May 1, 2019
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May 1, 2019
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Apr 24, 2019
Children do exams and assessments ‘more convoluted’ than at university in Scotland
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Apr 22, 2019
Scottish pupils face summer of exam chaos as union ballots for strikes at SQA
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Apr 20, 2019
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Mar 12, 2019
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Mar 12, 2019
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Mar 12, 2019
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Feb 22, 2019
Scotland: Here's what you need to know about the SQA strike threat
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Feb 21, 2019
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Dec 5, 2018
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Dec 5, 2018
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Nov 16, 2018
Chief executive of Scotland’s exam body set to retire
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Oct 27, 2018
Scotland's exams chief to retire in 2019
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Oct 26, 2018
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Oct 23, 2018
Scottish exam body accused of ‘piling pressure on schools’
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Oct 17, 2018
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Oct 12, 2018
Exam passes by Scottish S4 pupils drop 'at fastest rate since records started in 1965'
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Sep 14, 2018
Steep year-on-year drop in languages entries
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Aug 17, 2018
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Aug 9, 2018
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Aug 8, 2018
SNP under fire after Higher pass rates fall again and S4 passes nosedive by a third
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Aug 8, 2018
Scottish exams pass rate 'stable', says John Swinney
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Aug 7, 2018
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Aug 7, 2018
Scottish exam results day: Record number of students awarded university places as pass rates drop
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Aug 7, 2018
Scottish ministers under fire as exam results decline again
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Aug 7, 2018
Exam pass rates fall to lowest in five years in Scotland
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Scottish exam results revealed to thousands of youngsters
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Scottish pupils receive exam results
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Aug 7, 2018
Thousands of pupils prepare for Scottish exam results
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Aug 6, 2018
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May 22, 2018
Scotland: Exam board’s fatal error over Mary Queen of Scots
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May 22, 2018
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May 14, 2018
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May 8, 2018
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Mar 9, 2018
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Mar 8, 2018
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Mar 7, 2018
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Jan 25, 2018
End looms for handwritten exams in Scottish schools
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Dec 8, 2017
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Dec 8, 2017
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Nov 18, 2017
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Nov 17, 2017
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Sep 20, 2017
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Aug 16, 2017
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