Wales’s education minister has defended his decision to order a regrade of last year’s GCSE English language papers, stating his only motivation was to ensure fairness.
Leighton Andrews said he had no regrets about his decision, which resulted in more than 2,000 pupils in Wales gaining better grades after last summer’s exam fiasco. Appearing before the Education Select Committee, he said a “sober and serious” report by Welsh officials in September had made clear that outcomes for students were “unsafe”.
He said a change in methodology used to award grades led to candidates from Wales being awarded lower marks than would normally be expected and action was taken to “deal with that unfairness”.
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