Michael Allen, principal of Lisneal College in the Waterside
GCSE results in the North of Ireland will be solely based on grades provided by teachers, the Education Minister Peter Weir has said.
There are now growing calls for the Minister to scrap last week’s A Leverl results which had been set by the exams board CCEA.
Many students have been left heartbroken and their plans for university left in tatters after their results were worse than that predicted by their school teachers.
Michael Allen, principal of Lisneal College, said he commended the move “as far as GCSE and level two equivalents are concerned”.
“But we do need to revisit the AS and A Level qualifications in my opinion,” he said.
“If we can trust teachers’ judgement at GCSE why can we not trust the same teachers’ judgement at AS and A Level?”
