Lawyers acting for an alliance of organisations and individuals seeking redress following last summer’s GCSE English marking fiasco have been preparing their case, which will be heard in court next week.
The judicial review, scheduled to begin on Tuesday (December 11), follows more than three months of verbal wrangling between the alliance members – comprising local authorities, schools, headteachers, parents and students – and the examinations regulator Ofqual and awarding bodies.
Last summer’s GCSE results saw thousands of students apparently down-graded in their English language paper. The war of words has seen Ofqual suggesting that teachers were overly generous in their marking, while heads claim that grade boundaries were secretly and unfairly shifted.
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