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Prime Minister urged to announce plans for exams
Teachers unions have accused the government of “lagging behind” Wales after it announced Welsh school pupils would not sit exams next summer.
A spokesman for Boris Johnson said there were “no plans” for England to follow Wales.
However, Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: “The current position in England of a three-week delay to 2021 examinations is simply not good enough. Education is not as normal. Months of classroom learning have already been lost and many young people will continue to have to spend varying degrees of time out of school.”
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