Tens of thousands of pupils are still facing doubt over their futures as universities rushed to find them places after a government U-turn on grades.
Gavin Williamson announced yesterday that all A-level and GCSE results would be based on teachers’ predictions as he apologised to children, parents and schools.
The education secretary said that he was “incredibly sorry for the distress this has caused” after the government abandoned the system for awarding grades by a computer algorithm.
“When it was clear that the system wasn’t delivering what we believed, and had been assured that it would do . . . then further action had to be taken,” he told Sky News. “That’s what I did, that’s the decision that I took and that’s
