Wales is in the grip of a new GCSE English exam crisis with hundreds of teachers, unions and politicians voicing their concerns that confidence in the system has been rocked after a sharp dip in exam results.
The Welsh government has ordered an urgent investigation and the WJEC is reviewing marking after students across the country did not get their predicted marks in the January 2014 papers.
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has delivered a dossier to education minister Huw Lewis with comments from more than 100 secondary teachers and headteachers who are calling for an urgent resolution to a problem which many fear could spiral out of control.
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