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A-Levels

Volume 180: debated on Wednesday 14 November 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to make a statement on the future of the GCE A-level examination.

My right hon. and learned Friend will make a statement after he has received and considered the further advice which he requested from the School Examinations and Assessment Council, together with all other views expressed to him. He expects to receive this advice around the turn of the year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received concerning this summer's GCE A-level examination results; and if he will make a statement.

My right hon. and learned Friend has received two letters. Representations about individual GCE examination results which cannot be resolved through the normal appeals mechanisms should be addressed to the independent appeals authority for school examinations (IAASE).