Topic: Covid-19: GCSE, AS and A-levels in NI to resume in 2021/22
Covid-19: GCSE, AS and A-levels in NI to resume in 2021/22
GCSE, AS and A-Level exams in ทางเข้า slotxo Northern Ireland will take place again in the 2021/22 school year.
However pupils taking those qualifications through the CCEA exams board will sit "significantly fewer" exams in each subject.
That is according a statement in the assembly from the Education Minister Peter Weir.
However, AS grades given to pupils this summer will not count towards their A-level grade in 2022.
Mr Weir said students had faced "significant disruption to their learning" over the past two school years.
Summer exams have been cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
As a result, schools will calculate grades to be awarded to their pupils in 2021 but there will not be a return to the kind of statistical process run by CCEA which proved controversial in 2020.
However Mr Weir said "such an arrangement" was "not a sustainable or long-term approach."
In his statement to assembly members on Monday, the minister said the "clear plan" for qualifications in 2022 would "provide school leaders, teachers, parents and, most importantly, young people with the clarity and reassurance they need" before the 2021/22 school year.
He said schools and pupils had faced "unprecedented disruption".