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Labour warns that GCSE and A Level grade standardisation will ‘rob’ young people of their future

YOUNG people will be “robbed” of their future unless Prime Minister Boris Johnson urgently tackles “unfairness” in the unprecedented school assessment system introduced as a result of the coronavirus lockdown, Labour warning today. 

A-level students receive their results tomorrow and GCSE pupils will get theirs next Thursday.

Labour’s warning comes amid serious concern that thousands of pupils in England could have their grades lowered in a standardisation process that was introduced after all exams were cancelled.

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