Decision on A-level and GCSE appeals a ‘rolling disaster’, say teachers

School leaders say plan to allow pupils in England to use mock results fails to address issues

Teachers and school leaders in England have reacted with anger to the government’s 11th-hour decision to allow mock exams as a route of appealing against A-level and GCSE grades, describing developments as “a rolling disaster” and “a national outrage”.

The fudged announcement was made just hours before this year’s A-level results were delivered to schools. They will be published on Thursday and 250,000 students will find out the grades they have been awarded, based on an algorithm conceived by the regulator Ofqual in the absence of exams.

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