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Scottish Qualifications Authority

Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has been criticised by opposition parties

Politics Ministers attacked for 'rebadging not reforming' embattled and scrapped SQA

Teachers have rejected a pay offer

Education Secondary teachers reject pay offer as 70% back strike action

Politics SNP ministers accused of betraying poorer children over attainment gap

Education Analysis: Why the exam results are so shocking

Education 'More anxiety' impacting young people ahead of exam results day

Opinion Leader: Testing times for Scottish education

Education Scottish exam results will be 'manipulated' to ensure more students fail

Education Scottish exam changes to continue into 2023

Politics The Steamie: Douglas Ross and his 'reverse ferret' over Boris Johnson

Columnists Education Scotland should be shut down tomorrow – Cameron Wyllie

Politics SNP ministers accused of ‘insulting’ Holyrood committee amid secrecy row

Politics ‘Generous’ grading system for exams under measures to tackle schools' disruption

Politics Pupils could take formula sheets into exams under emergency measures

Politics Decision on Scottish school exams going ahead may not be made until March

Education Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped, Education Secretary says

Politics Scotland should consider ‘school graduation certificate’ in place of exams

Politics EIS calls for education review to focus on support for Scottish schools

Politics Historical school performance data not part of 'alternative assessment' model

Education Private pupils given easier ride than state school pupils during 2021 exams

Politics Teachers 'under more workload strain' amid three possible exam scenarios

Education Exams system for 2022 to be announced 'within days'

Education Covid blamed for widening of attainment gap between poorest and richest students

Columnists Education attainment gap risks reinvigorating the class system – Scotsman says

Education Analysis: Another year, another failure to tackle the attainment gap

Education Exam results fall overall from last year

Education Calls for government apology to young people as results day looms

Politics Pupils missed a third of learning time in pandemic - but grades still moderated

Columnists No wonder John Swinney got expelled as Education Secretary – John McLellan

Politics Alternative assessments ‘not fundamentally different’ to last year’s exams model

Politics Five things learned from the OECD education report on Scotland

Politics Gina Davidson: Nicola Sturgeon must save pupils from this chaos

Politics Scotland’s councils ‘in discussions’ in bid to claw back millions paid to SQA

Politics Sturgeon pledges to investigate any evidence of pupils' withdrawal from Highers

Politics Scottish schools withdrawing pupils accused of ‘massaging results’

Politics 'No role for council interference with pupil grades' insists education secretary

Education Sturgeon accused of 'sleekit' use of historic data around 2021 exam results

Politics Somerville offers ‘cast iron guarantee’ to pupils over Scottish exam grading

Opinion Scotland's qualifications system must meet learners' needs - Fiona Robertson

Opinion Confidence in the qualifications authority is shaken - Euan McColm

Politics Young people forced to take 'perverse gamble' on grades over appeals process

Politics 'It's not too late': education secretary urged to cancel high school assessments

Politics Swinney doubles-down on school 'exams'

Education SQA exams: Why smaller school assessments are prolonging the agony

Politics Pupils sharing past papers online could face shock in exam hall

Columnists Pupils must resist temptation to cheat in 'exams by another name' –Scotsman says

Education Insight: Is another exam crisis brewing in Scotland?

Health Mounting concern over 'exams in all but name' as return to school confirmed

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