Force the Education Secretary to resign over the handling of exam results

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Either the government should sack the Education Secretary, or Parliament should impeach him due to the monumental failure to protect working class students from class-biased exam results during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Education Secretary must resign because the exam results for this year has severely and unfairly put poorer GCSE and A Level students at a disadvantage because a school’s performance is taken into account for working out individual exam results. There is no individual appeals process, which is shambolic. This also shows contempt for the professional judgement of teachers who are outstanding public sector workers who have world-class training to assess such things.

Why it was rejected

It was about honours or appointments, which petitions cannot cover.

We can't publish petitions about honours or appointments. That includes calling for Ministers to be sacked or to resign.

Additionally, since you started your petition the Government has announced that students in England will receive teacher assessed grades for GCSE and A level results this summer: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gcse-and-a-level-students-to-receive-centre-assessment-grades

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades

Timeline

8 Aug 2020	Petition opened for signatures
19 Aug 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 19 Aug 2020

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