School exams could be scrapped next summer, a senior Tory MP has said. Robert Halfon, chair of the Commons Education Committee, said there was only a "50:50" chance that GCSE and A-Levels would go ahead as normal next year.
He urged the under-fire exams regulator Ofqual to decide by October whether to press ahead with exams or to award grades based on teacher assessments.
It comes amid sustained criticism over the Government's handling of education during the pandemic, which saw ministers perform a chaotic u-turn on A-Level results.
Teachers were asked to predict grades for students after exams were cancelled due to coronavirus. However some 40% of results were downgraded by a computer algorithm, prompting an outcry over the impact on the
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