Senin, 10 Agustus 2020

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologises to pupils over controversial exam results - Sky News

Scotland's first minister has apologised to pupils affected by the controversial downgrading of exam results.

"Despite our best intentions, I do acknowledge we did not get this right and I'm sorry for that," Nicola Sturgeon said.

Pupils in the most deprived areas of Scotland had their exam pass rate downgraded by more than twice that of students from the wealthiest parts of the country.

'Deep concerns' as pass rate cut hits poorest pupils hardest

Exams for nationals, highers and advanced higher courses were scrapped this year due to the coronavirus lockdown, with teachers instead submitting estimated grades based on students' previous results, predicted attainment and evidence of their past work.

The grades were then looked at by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), which has moderated 26.2% of them, while leaving the rest unchanged.

Of those grades that were moderated, 93.1% were downgraded, affecting 124,564 pupils.

The pass rate of pupils in the most deprived data zones was reduced by 15.2% from teacher estimates after the exam board's moderation.

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In contrast, the pass rate for pupils from the most affluent backgrounds dropped by 6.9%.

Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon visited West Calder High School in West Lothian to see how staff were preparing to welcome students back
Image: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited West Calder High School in West Lothian to see how staff were preparing to welcome students back

The first minister said: "We will be taking steps to ensure that every young person gets a grade that recognises the work they have done.

"Our concern - which was to make sure that the grades young people got were as valid as those they would have got in any other year - perhaps led us to think too much about the overall system and not enough about the individual pupil.

"That has meant that too many have lost out on grades that they think they should have had and also that that has happened as a result of not of anything they've done but because of a statistical model or an algorithm, and in addition that burden has not fallen equally across our society."

She added: "Despite our best intentions, I do acknowledge we did not get this right and I'm sorry for that.

"The most immediate challenge is to resolve the grades awarded to pupils this year.

"We will not expect every student who has been downgraded to appeal."

Ms Sturgeon said Education Secretary John Swinney would set out a plan to deal with the controversy in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.

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Opposition parties have been calling for the education secretary's resignation, with Scottish Labour poised to mount a no-confidence vote against him in Holyrood - something the Conservatives have said they will support.

Ms Sturgeon reiterated her support for her deputy, saying: "When we get things wrong, I want to be able to stand here and acknowledge that and put it right, because I think fundamentally that's better than simply digging our heels in and trying to defend a position we think in our hearts we didn't get right.

"That's the approach I will take, it's the approach the deputy first minister is going to take and I hope that's the one that young people affected and their families will see as the right approach to take."

The first minister said she "absolved" the qualifications authority of responsibility for the controversy, because it developed the system at the behest of ministers.

She said: "Ministers asked the SQA to apply an approach that delivered a set of results that are comparable in terms of quality to last year's.

"This is a view that ministers are taking now that it didn't take enough account of the individual circumstances."

Ruaridh Hall, 17, was predicted a B in design and manufacture but was downgraded to a D
Image: Ruaridh Hall, 17, was predicted a B in design and manufacture but was downgraded to a D

'I thought I was going to get an A - but I got a D, this is not fair'

Ruaridh Hall, 17, from Edinburgh, had the result in his best subject downgraded by two marks and was given a B in a subject he was predicted to fail in.

He told Sky News: "We did prelims in January and for my design and manufacture I got a B, then last week I got predicted a D.

"How does that make sense?

"I thought I'd get an A, that was the one I thought I'd get an A in and I got a D - that's disgraceful.

"Apparently my school thought I'd get a B, which is fair enough, but SQA gave me a D - doesn't seem very fair.

"I want Nicola Sturgeon to fix it, if I can get even what the school predicted me I'd be happy with that, but a D?

"That's terrible.

"It's crazy because in my English I was predicted a fail and I got a B, so how is this a fair system?

"If the government says they're going to fix this for some students and not others then that's unfair, how is that just?

"I think if anybody gets their grades changed back to what the school said then I should, otherwise I will not be happy."

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2020-08-10 16:52:30Z
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Boris Johnson considers law change amid rising migrant crossings - BBC News

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The UK needs to consider changes to asylum laws to deter migrants from crossing the English Channel, Boris Johnson has said.

The prime minister said it was currently "very, very difficult" to legally return people who arrive in the UK from France using small boats.

More than 4,000 people have successfully crossed English Channel this way so far this year.

It comes as a group of Tory MPs has called for tougher action on crossings.

Speaking on Monday, Mr Johnson pledged to work with the French authorities to discourage people from making the "dangerous" journey across the channel.

But he added the UK also needed to look at "the panoply of laws that an illegal immigrant has at his or her disposal that allow them to stay here".

'Range of options'

On Monday, the Ministry of Defence said it had sent an RAF Atlas transport aircraft to help Border Force spot small boats trying to cross the Channel.

The Home Office had asked defence chiefs for help to make crossings in small boats "unviable".

Downing Street said Border Force was looking at a "range of options," including new measures, to stop boats entering British waters.

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EU Laws

The UK is currently following EU asylum law during its 11-month post-Brexit transition period following its departure from the bloc in January.

This includes the so-called Dublin regulation, which states that a person's asylum claim can be transferred to the first member state they entered.

The PM's spokesman said the UK wanted to replace the "inflexible and rigid" regulation with a new agreement on returns after December.

He added that the current Dublin rules, which put a time limit on transfers, could be "abused by both migrants and their lawyers to frustrate the returns of those who have no right to be here".

In a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, 23 Tory MPs and two peers said the UK should refuse to sign up to a "similar agreement" to Dublin after December.

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They also urged "stronger enforcement efforts" to address a "surge in illegal immigration".

The group says ministers should do "whatever it takes" to address the rising number of people trying to enter the UK via the English Channel.

"It is strikingly clear that, rather than a 'hostile environment', invading migrants have been welcomed," they wrote.

They added that some migrants had been offered "immediate access to regular payments whilst accommodated at taxpayer expense in expensive hotels."

"All this is relayed to people smugglers and potential economic migrants in France, encouraging and emboldening those intent on facilitating further border crossings."

Since the demolition of the infamous 'Jungle' nearly four years ago, French authorities have been successful in stopping other large-scale camps from forming.

But migrants do still arrive in Calais; they are just more scattered.

Greater security measures - including a wall built along the motorway with UK funding - have made it more difficult for migrants to stow away on lorries.

But that's led the people smugglers to increasingly turn to using the equally risky method of small boats.

The UK and France have worked closely on this for close to two decades.

The Treaty of Le Touquet which effectively 'moved' the UK border to Calais (and the French border to Dover) to allow checks to happen before crossings, was signed in 2003.

But they can't change geography.

Calais remains a magnet because it is only 20 miles from the UK - on a clear day in Dover, you can see the headlights of French traffic on the other side of the sea.

No amount of planes, walls or Navy deployments can alter that.

Quite apart from the humanitarian issue here, there is added political pressure for the UK government.

David Cameron was pretty roundly criticised for suggesting in 2016 that Brexit would mean the French would pull out of bilateral agreements and we'd see "Jungles" popping up on the South coast of England.

There's certainly no indication of that, but there's no doubt that the images of dinghies landing on Kent's beaches will be a difficult one for a government that has set huge store by its promise to 'take back control' of immigration.

David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee charity, urged politicians not to treat those arriving in the UK as "battering rams" in arguments over immigration.

Speaking on Times Radio, the former Labour foreign secretary said the UK government's appeal to France to do more to stop boats showed the limits of its rhetoric on "taking back control" of borders.

'Cooler heads'

He said asylum claims needed to be processed much more quickly, saying too many cases were taking more than six months when in Germany the standard waiting time was eight to nine weeks.

On reports the Royal Navy could be used to escort boats back, he urged the UK to work with France rather than taking "unilateral" action.

"The law of the sea saying anyone who is in distress needs to be picked up is there for a reason. Cooler heads need to prevail if the UK is to sustain an effective response as well as a humane one".

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2020-08-10 15:57:39Z
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Boris Johnson considers law change amid rising migrant crossings - BBC News

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The UK needs to consider changes to asylum laws to deter migrants from crossing the English Channel, Boris Johnson has said.

The prime minister said it was currently "very, very difficult" to legally return people who arrive in the UK from France using small boats.

More than 4,000 people have successfully crossed English Channel this way so far this year.

It comes as a group of Tory MPs has called for tougher action on crossings.

Speaking on Monday, Mr Johnson pledged to work with the French authorities to discourage people from making the "dangerous" journey across the channel.

But he added the UK also needed to look at "the panoply of laws that an illegal immigrant has at his or her disposal that allow them to stay here".

'Range of options'

On Monday, the Ministry of Defence said it had sent an RAF Atlas transport aircraft to help Border Force spot small boats trying to cross the Channel.

The Home Office had asked defence chiefs for help to make crossings in small boats "unviable".

Downing Street said Border Force was looking at a "range of options," including new measures, to stop boats entering British waters.

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EU Laws

The UK is currently following EU asylum law during its 11-month post-Brexit transition period following its departure from the bloc in January.

This includes the so-called Dublin regulation, which states that a person's asylum claim can be transferred to the first member state they entered.

The PM's spokesman said the UK wanted to replace the "inflexible and rigid" regulation with a new agreement on returns after December.

He added that the current Dublin rules, which put a time limit on transfers, could be "abused by both migrants and their lawyers to frustrate the returns of those who have no right to be here".

In a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, 23 Tory MPs and two peers said the UK should refuse to sign up to a "similar agreement" to Dublin after December.

Media playback is unsupported on your device

They also urged "stronger enforcement efforts" to address a "surge in illegal immigration".

The group says ministers should do "whatever it takes" to address the rising number of people trying to enter the UK via the English Channel.

"It is strikingly clear that, rather than a 'hostile environment', invading migrants have been welcomed," they wrote.

They added that some migrants had been offered "immediate access to regular payments whilst accommodated at taxpayer expense in expensive hotels."

"All this is relayed to people smugglers and potential economic migrants in France, encouraging and emboldening those intent on facilitating further border crossings."

Since the demolition of the infamous 'Jungle' nearly four years ago, French authorities have been successful in stopping other large-scale camps from forming.

But migrants do still arrive in Calais; they are just more scattered.

Greater security measures - including a wall built along the motorway with UK funding - have made it more difficult for migrants to stow away on lorries.

But that's led the people smugglers to increasingly turn to using the equally risky method of small boats.

The UK and France have worked closely on this for close to two decades.

The Treaty of Le Touquet which effectively 'moved' the UK border to Calais (and the French border to Dover) to allow checks to happen before crossings, was signed in 2003.

But they can't change geography.

Calais remains a magnet because it is only 20 miles from the UK - on a clear day in Dover, you can see the headlights of French traffic on the other side of the sea.

No amount of planes, walls or Navy deployments can alter that.

Quite apart from the humanitarian issue here, there is added political pressure for the UK government.

David Cameron was pretty roundly criticised for suggesting in 2016 that Brexit would mean the French would pull out of bilateral agreements and we'd see "Jungles" popping up on the South coast of England.

There's certainly no indication of that, but there's no doubt that the images of dinghies landing on Kent's beaches will be a difficult one for a government that has set huge store by its promise to 'take back control' of immigration.

David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee charity, urged politicians not to treat those arriving in the UK as "battering rams" in arguments over immigration.

Speaking on Times Radio, the former Labour foreign secretary said the UK government's appeal to France to do more to stop boats showed the limits of its rhetoric on "taking back control" of borders.

'Cooler heads'

He said asylum claims needed to be processed much more quickly, saying too many cases were taking more than six months when in Germany the standard waiting time was eight to nine weeks.

On reports the Royal Navy could be used to escort boats back, he urged the UK to work with France rather than taking "unilateral" action.

"The law of the sea saying anyone who is in distress needs to be picked up is there for a reason. Cooler heads need to prevail if the UK is to sustain an effective response as well as a humane one".

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2020-08-10 15:45:00Z
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Nicola Sturgeon apologises for handling of Scottish exam results - The Independent

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Coronavirus: PM understands 'anxiety' over exam grading - BBC News

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It is understandable that there is "anxiety" over exam grades, the prime minister has said, as pupils prepare to receive estimated results this week for tests cancelled during lockdown.

Visiting a school in London, Boris Johnson said he was also "very keen that exams should go ahead as normal".

A-level results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are due on Thursday.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has apologised for the handling of its exam results.

She acknowledged "we did not get it right" after results estimated by teachers for cancelled exams were downgraded.

The Scottish Qualifications Authority lowered grades using an algorithm - with pass rates for pupils in deprived areas downgraded further than those in more affluent parts.

Ms Sturgeon said her priority was to resolve the concerns about how some results had been downgraded, following protests by pupils.

With pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland awaiting A-level results this week, Mr Johnson said on a visit to a school in east London he wanted their hard work "properly reflected".

"Clearly, because of what has happened this year, there is some anxiety about what grades pupils are going to get, and everybody understands the system that the teachers are setting the grades, then there's a standardisation system," he said.

"We will do our best to ensure that the hard work of pupils is properly reflected."

Meanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said there was little evidence of coronavirus being transmitted in schools and the plan to fully reopen England's schools in September was guided by the best science.

Government advisers have warned the nation may have reached the limit of what can be reopened in society safely.

But asked whether parents should brace for local closures to combat flare-ups of the virus, Mr Johnson said education was a priority.

"The last thing we want to do is close schools. Education is a priority for the country - that is simple social justice," he said.

Guidance on reopening schools has been published for England. There are also separate plans for Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, where schools are scheduled to return from Tuesday.

It is usually pupils who are nervous about exam results and going back to school.

But it is ministers who are feeling the heat, over a pile-up of school-related problems.

A-level results are out this week - and Boris Johnson has been empathising with the "anxiety" of students getting replacement grades.

It's likely to be confusing. Perhaps even for the PM?

"Everybody understands the system that the teachers are setting the grades, then there's a standardisation system," Mr Johnson said on a school visit.

But in practice, teachers' predicted grades will have less influence than it initially appeared.

Instead the key factors will be how students are ranked and schools' results in previous years - with warnings this will be unfair to bright pupils in low-achieving schools.

The threat of a backlash over exams comes on top of the high political stakes over getting pupils back into school full-time in September.

Head teachers are warning again that to get everyone back in school they need less political rhetoric and more practical solutions.

Schools across the UK closed on 20 March, except to children of key workers or vulnerable children. On 1 June, they began a limited reopening for early years pupils, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6.

On Sunday, the UK reported a further eight people had died after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total to 46,574. A further 1,062 people tested positive for Covid-19.

In another development, gyms, swimming pools, leisure centres and children's play centres are being allowed to reopen in Wales on Monday, in a further easing of the lockdown restrictions.

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2020-08-10 12:00:00Z
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Nicola Sturgeon 'sorry' over Scottish exam results - BBC News

Nicola Sturgeon has apologised after accepting her government "did not get it right" over Scottish exam results.

With no exams sat this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) ran a system based on teacher assessments.

However, officials then applied a moderation technique which led to about 125,000 estimates being downgraded.

The first minister said this approach was too focused on the "overall system" not enough on individual pupils.

Education Secretary John Swinney will set out the government's plan to fix the issue on Tuesday, with Ms Sturgeon saying the onus would not be on students to submit appeals.

Opposition parties are pushing for a vote of no confidence in the education secretary, but Ms Sturgeon said she had faith in Mr Swinney and that the row was "not party political".

Scotland's exams were cancelled for the first time in history due to the pandemic, leading to the use of a system based on teacher assessments.

This was moderated at a national level by the SQA, leading to thousands of pupils complaining that they had received lower grades then originally estimated.

There was particular criticism after Higher pass rates for pupils in the most deprived data zones were reduced by 15.2%, in comparison with 6.9% for pupils from the most affluent backgrounds.

The Scottish children's commissioner's office said pupils from more deprived areas had been downgraded based on the historic performance of their school rather than their performance.

Ms Sturgeon said young people in more deprived areas might be concluding that "the system is stacked against them", and that she was "not prepared to have that outcome".

Mr Swinney had signalled a u-turn on Sunday, saying he had "heard the anger of students" over the row.

At her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said steps would be taken to "address concerns" and "ensure that every young person gets a grade that recognises the work they have done".

She said ministers had taken "decisions we thought were the right ones" in unprecedented circumstances, but after "a lot of soul searching" had now accepted they were not right.

She said: "Our concern, which was to make sure the grades young people got were as valid as in any other year, perhaps led us to think too much about the overall system and not enough about the individual pupil.

"That has meant too many students feel they have lost out on grades they should have had, and that that has happened not as a result of anything they have done but a statistical model or algorithm.

"Despite our best intentions I do acknowledge that we did not get this right and I am sorry for that."

Ms Sturgeon said her government would not "dig our heels in and defend a position that in our hearts we know we didn't get right".

Mr Swinney will set out plans for how to address the issue at Holyrood on Tuesday, but the first minister said "we will not expect every student who has been downgraded to appeal".

She added: "This is not the fault of students, and it should not be on students to fix it - that's on us, and we will set out tomorrow how we intend to do that."

The education secretary could also face a no-confidence vote tabled by Labour in the Scottish Parliament when it returns from recess this week.

The Conservatives say they will support the motion and the Scottish Greens have indicated they would consider backing it if no changes are made.

Scottish Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the "simplest and fairest" way would be to return grades to what teachers originally projected, saying that "anything else would fall short".

The Tories, meanwhile, have called for pupils to either be given a grade based on their prelim score or to be allowed to sit an exam in the autumn.

Ms Sturgeon said she had confidence in Mr Swinney, noting that governments in other parts of the UK were taking "broadly the same approach" to exam results "in difficult circumstances".

A-level results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are due out on Thursday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying "we will do our best to ensure that the hard work of pupils is properly reflected".

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2020-08-10 12:04:25Z
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Boris Johnson: UK has to look at 'legal framework' for migrants crossing Channel - Sky News

The UK has to look at the "legal framework" for migrants crossing the English Channel, the prime minister has said.

Boris Johnson said he wanted to work with France to stop the crossings and ensure that migrants "understand that this isn't a good idea, this is a very bad and stupid and dangerous and criminal thing to do".

"But then there's a second thing we've got to do and that is to look at the legal framework that we have that means that when people do get here, it is very, very difficult to then send them away again even though blatantly they've come here illegally," he added.

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Image: A minister has told Sky News the situation 'absolutely needs to stop'

The PM's comments come after a Border Force patrol boat met an inflatable dinghy carrying around 20 Syrian migrants off the coast of Dover on Monday morning.

Those on board were seen waving and smiling as the vessel made its way across the English Channel.

The migrants were met by the patrol boat Hunter shortly after 7am with the White Cliffs in sight.

Home Secretary Priti Patel was seen in Dover on Monday, disembarking from a police boat that had been out in the English Channel earlier in the morning.

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A minister told Sky News earlier that the "unacceptable situation" of migrant crossings in the English Channel "absolutely needs to stop".

So far this year, more than 4,000 migrants have reached the UK by crossing the English Channel in small boats.

Almost 600 people made it to the UK in crossings between Thursday and Sunday.

Home Secretary Priti Patel in Dover
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Speaking to Kay Burley @ Breakfast, care minister Helen Whately said: "We do have an unacceptable situation of many migrants coming across the Channel at the moment.

"It's also a dangerous route, there's real risk to life for those coming across, it's obviously a form of illegal immigration, it's not the right way to come to the United Kingdom.

"So, we are taking action."

Ms Whately added: "The important thing is we work together with the French to stop this flow of migrants.

"It's not a safe way for them to try and get here, it's incredibly dangerous, it also means money is going to people smugglers, so it absolutely needs to stop."

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How can government stop migrants crossing Channel?

The government has made an official request to the Royal Navy for help, while a former Royal Marine has been appointed "clandestine Channel threat commander".

The RAF has confirmed that its Atlas surveillance aircraft was supporting Border Force operations in the Channel on Monday.

Immigration minister Chris Philp will head to Paris on Tuesday to hold talks with his French counterparts on the issue.

Speaking ahead of the trip, Mr Philp said the UK government wants to make the route across the Channel "completely unviable" so migrants "have no incentive to come to northern France or attempt the crossing in the first place".

He added: "We intend to return as many migrants who have arrived as possible.

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UK calls for France to crack down on migrants

"There are returns flights planned in the coming days. And we will also continue to go after the heinous criminals and organised crime networks putting people's lives at risk."

Last year, Home Secretary Priti Patel promised that the crossings would have become an "infrequent phenomenon" by now.

She has since called the figures "appalling" and levelled blame at her counterparts on the continent as she revealed the UK and French governments were locked in a row over the interpretation of maritime law.

The Sunday Telegraph has reported that France wants £30m to cover the costs of increased policing to stop the migrants crossing into English waters.

It also claims ministers are looking into chartering spy planes and drones.

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2020-08-10 11:03:45Z
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