Headteachers seeking justice for pupils who were down-graded in this year’s GCSE English marking fiasco have issued Freedom of Information (FoI) requests in a bid to force the exams watchdog to disclose further details of its inquiry into the controversy.
The school leaders, led by Kenny Frederick, head of George Green’s School in London, have written to Glenys Stacey, the chief executive of Ofqual, twice in recent weeks, asking her to publish transcripts from interviews carried out with 100 or so affected schools as part of the investigation.
They believe that not all of the findings of the £150,000 inquiry – carried out by business consultant Capgemini on behalf of Ofqual – have been published and that information that may exonerate schools accused of over-generous marking has been withheld.
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