The Covid Generation: Will disadvantaged pupils be downgraded in the rest of the UK? – BBC Newsnight

Nicola Sturgeon has apologised to the 125,000 pupils affected by the downgrading of exam results in Scotland. But will the system be fair to pupils in the rest of the UK? Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F

Nicola Sturgeon has apologised after accepting her government “did not get it right” over Scottish exam results.

With no exams sat this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) ran a system based on teacher assessments.

However, officials applied a moderation technique which led to about 125,000 estimates being downgraded, with a far higher number of those in the most deprived data zones. The algorithm bases results on the historic performance of their school, rather than individual performance.

A similar system will be used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. So will the outcry in Scotland have an impact on the delivery of results in the rest of the UK later this week?

And has Covid further widened the attainment gap for disadvantaged students at poorer schools?

UK Editor Katie Razzall reports and Kirsty Wark is joined by NUS President Larissa Kennedy, former education minister Robert Goodwill & Sir Michael Marmot, author of the Marmot Review into health inequality in England.

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