Rejected petition For exams in 2021 to be reasonably adapted to accommodate reduced teaching hours

For the government to allow students taking exams in 2021 to have adequate provision to allow students to have all an equal opportunity at success. This situation has only highlighted inequality within the education system will mean that many students are significantly disadvantaged due to COVID-19

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As the government have not adequately addressed how students are expected to make progress into the next stages of their life and have not shown any consideration to students that will be significantly disadvantaged due to socioeconomic circumstances. While this year's exams have been addressed no provision has been given for next years students to have an equal opportunity to succeed in their education and are faced with rising uncertainty about their future.

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 exams are a matter for exam boards and individual schools, and are not a matter for the UK Government or Parliament.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312570

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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

Date submitted 11 May 2020
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