Petition · past parliament

Cancel, or delay, vocational exams set to go ahead in January.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Vocational exams for BTECS, Certificates and more are set to go ahead in January. With the new national lockdown we are told to stay at home, to stay safe, how is putting 50-200 students in a hall together for considerable amounts of time deemed to be safe?
I want us as students to be safe. If A Levels and GCSEs can be cancelled months ahead, so can vocational exams that are about to take place. This variant is 50-70% more transmissible, with so many people in one room for extended periods of time, any covid could easily spread.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

4 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
6 Jan 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 6 Jan 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.