SQA: Where's Our Say?
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@SQAOurSay
For young people by young people. Holding to SQA to account for their unfair grade allocation process since May 2020 📥 DM or [email protected]
We have written to @ScotGovEdu to express ongoing concerns about the human rights compliance of the alternative certification model and appeals process used to replace exams in 2020 and 2021 @CYPCS tes.com/magazine/news/… You can read the letter here: cypcs.org.uk/news-and-stori…
We’ve joined other charities and academics to write an open letter to @sqanews to call on them to reconsider the appeals process published last week. There’s still time to change this, and give young people a fair chance to appeal. Read the letter: bit.ly/3w2jk3B
Can the SQA papers still be used by teachers after being leaked on TikTok and Discord? Asks @BeatriceWishart . If they can’t the only meaningful support provided by SQA is no longer available , she says
As the only young person who sits on and @sqanews’s NQ21 group and the only member representing young people, I have not had an equal input into discussions around the appeals process this year at NQ group meetings. Young people have been let down and ignored by this process.
Seeing @sqanews talk about listening to us but then doing the opposite is disappointing to say the least. @OfficialSYP, @CYPCS and @SQAOurSay have been working so hard to get young people be heard, getting nothing in return. Read the statement below: syp.org.uk/appeals-proces…
Nicola Sturgeon saying the extenuating circumstances isn't including in the appeals system because there is a contingency measure in place. But that contingency expressly rules out resits or delaying assessment. If a pupil has sat a non-exam exam, that's it, nothing they can do!
Some very strange examples of “co-production” being discussed at the moment. If you have very limited involvement of young people and then ignore their views, you can’t call it co-production just because they were in the room.
The only young person on a group charged with creating an alternative to exams has hit out at the new qualification appeals process. bit.ly/3vZOLLC
Education Secretary @S_A_Somerville tells #BBCGMS she will take ‘absolute responsibility’ for any outcome of this year’s assessment process and she has full confidence in SQA.
