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Majority of Scottish parents want Higher and Advanced Higher exams axed in 2021

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exams for Higher and Advanced Higher should be axed next year. Education Secretary John Swinney has announced National 5 exams have been scrapped but those for Higher and Advanced Higher are still provisionally due to go ahead in May.

The National Parent Forum of Scotland survey found most parents and carers think they should also be scrapped now amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Just over a quarter of parents (26.6%) believe the exams should go ahead in 2021, while 50.6% want them to be cancelled, according to the poll of 4,196 parents and carers.There were also 22.8% who said they were undecided.A decision will be made by mid-February on whether the Higher and Advanced Higher exam diet will take place but 75% of parents said it should be.

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