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23/08/2001
Exams body to face questioning over GCSE blunder
Northern Ireland's exam body, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) has been summoned before the local assembly to explain how it got nearly 1,000 GSCE exams results wrong.
Members on the education committee at Stormont want to know by their first meeting in September how the CCEA gave wrong grades to Home Economics pupils.
The body revealed on Tuesday that around 1,000 GCSE results were wrong. However, while the correct results were given to students on Wednesday, many received a drop in grades prompting calls for an enquiry into the mistake.
The CCEA has sent letters of apology to all of the candidates affected by the re-issue of grades. In the letter, the Head of Education Services at the CCEA, Alastair Walker, blamed human error for the blunder.
Mr Walker said the findings of the investigation into the affair would be made public. (MB)
Members on the education committee at Stormont want to know by their first meeting in September how the CCEA gave wrong grades to Home Economics pupils.
The body revealed on Tuesday that around 1,000 GCSE results were wrong. However, while the correct results were given to students on Wednesday, many received a drop in grades prompting calls for an enquiry into the mistake.
The CCEA has sent letters of apology to all of the candidates affected by the re-issue of grades. In the letter, the Head of Education Services at the CCEA, Alastair Walker, blamed human error for the blunder.
Mr Walker said the findings of the investigation into the affair would be made public. (MB)
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