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Students lose high court battle over GCSEs
GCSE students who were supported by Bedford Borough Council in a high court fight against ‘unfair’ grading lost the case today.
A national alliance of students, schools, unions, professional teaching bodies and local authorities brought the legal challenge against Ofqual, the exams regulator, and exam boards Edexcel and AQA over the handling of the June 2012 GCSE English exam.
The alliance argued that the shifting of grade boundaries for exams which other students had sat in January under different rules was unfair, and that the papers should be regraded.
Dave Hodgson, the Mayor of Bedford, said: “The judge recognised the unfairness which young people suffered, which emphasises again that many young people in the borough have lost out through no fault of their own. Sadly that will be no consolation to the students who have to live with the consequences of this unfairness.
“We lined up alongside pupils, teachers and schools to fight for fairness. While this unfairness has been recognised through this process, the judgement is a bitter blow for those young people who have received lower English grades than they would have been awarded for their work even just a few months earlier.”
Bedford Borough was one of 42 councils to join the alliance after some young people in the borough suffered as a result of the grading changes.
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