PMQ's series: Back to the grind
And we are back after the summer recess. Yesterday, PMQ's returned after a very quick summer and the pantomime of the House of Commons also returned with it. As well as my short mini series of documenting briefly the proceedings of PMQ's with the aim of informing more people of my age of the proceedings of Parliament. Some of the topics which came up were the return of schools and A-level results. These issues remained one of the largest themes throughout the session. Labour Sir Keir Starmer began his questions by referencing the exams 'fiasco' that occured recently with the A levels results in England. Controversy has emerged over when the government first became aware of the problem within the algorithm of calculating results - one that unfairly disadvantaged children living in deprived areas. This was after Ofqual's senior leadership told MPs that Ofqual should not be blamed for the fiasco that engulfed this summer's exams in England and accused the educati...
