{"id":6375,"date":"2022-02-01T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2022-02-01T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:42:04","slug":"6375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=6375","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: Exams on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6376\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6376\" class=\"wp-image-6376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Scottish-Education-Secretarry-Shirley-Anne-Somerville-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley-Anne Somerville<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It remains the government\u2019s \u2018firm intention\u2019 to hold National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exams this Spring, Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has restated.<\/p>\n<p>Taking into consideration ongoing disruption within schools, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has decided to invoke its Scenario 2 contingency and will provide revision support in early March to aid learners in preparing for their exams.<\/p>\n<p>It complements the significant modifications SQA has already made to reduce the volume of assessment and ease the workload of learners, teachers and lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>SQA has also, today, announced a series of measures that will support delivery of the qualifications this year and that acknowledge the disruption caused by the pandemic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>exceptional circumstances back-up for learners who are unable to attend their exam or exams due to illness or bereavement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>grading exams this year will look to factor in the impact of the pandemic on learners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>once the results have been published, learners will have free direct access to appeal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ms Somerville also confirmed that \u00a34 million will be used to support schools and colleges provide targeted exam preparation sessions for learners who need it most over the Easter break.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement delivered in the Scottish Parliament, the Education Secretary said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt remains my firm intention that exams will take place as planned &#8211; they will only be cancelled if public health advice says it isn\u2019t safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the number of full and partial school closures has been small, it is clear that many secondary schools have experienced extreme disruption as a result of the Omicron variant &#8211; particularly in the first half of January &#8211; in relation to both student and teacher absences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis package of measures is designed to ensure our learners are fully supported in their learning and preparations for the exams this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-6376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley-Anne Somerville<\/p>\n<p>It remains the government\u2019s \u2018firm intention\u2019 to hold National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exams this Spring, Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has restated.<\/p>\n<p>Taking into consideration ongoing disruption within schools, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has decided to invoke its Scenario 2 contingency and will provide revision support in early March <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=6375\">Scotland: Exams on track<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312,14],"tags":[827,2721,2719,25,417,26,264,416,422,562,992,2718,2720],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-government","category-education-learning","tag-education","tag-education-secretary","tag-exams","tag-government-public-sector-journal","tag-government-journal","tag-gpsj","tag-gpsj-magazine","tag-public-sector-journal","tag-public-sector-magazine","tag-schools","tag-scotland","tag-scottish","tag-shirley-anne-somerville","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scotland: Exams on track - Government &amp; 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