Grant A-Level students their UCAS grades in light of the coronavirus pandemic

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

This year’s wave of year 13 students have had more time off school than last year’s students ever would have, and faced an extremely challenging set of circumstances. Granting them their aspirational UCAS prediction grades (as done last year) is fair, in a time where very little is aspirational.

The government must identify that students have have missed vital school time which is hard to make up for, and the new restrictions remove an essential half term from their education. I hope parliament can realise that home-learning undermines the fundamentals of schooling; that all students have access to a free education. Those in less fortunate circumstances - those who have no computer/Wi-Fi and those who experience the effects of the virus will simply not perform as well as usual.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Since you started your petition the Education Secretary has said that this year the Government will "put our trust in teachers rather than algorithms": https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-01-06/debates/D2A64DD9-6A6B-4EAB-8001-C3BACDE25B02/Covid-19EducationalSettings

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

Cancel GCSEs and A Levels in 2021: Cancel GCSEs and A Levels in 2021

Cancel GCSE and A-levels in 2021 replace with Course Work and Teacher Assessment: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/

Timeline

5 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
12 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 12 Jan 2021

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