Rejected petition Reschedule examinations to avoid clash with Ramadan.

Ramadan is a month of compulsory fasting from dawn to dusk for muslims across the world, Ramadan in the next few years will clash with major examinations in both schools and universities in the UK, which will inevitably handicap the academic preformance of thousands of students.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about the dates of exams are taken by exam boards, not by the UK Government or Parliament.

You may be interested in this statement made by the Joint Council for Qualifications, which is a membership organisation comprising the seven largest providers of qualifications in the UK:

http://www.jcq.org.uk/media-centre/news-releases/jcq-statement---exam-timetables

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 19 March 2017
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