Schools minister denies scrapped grading model had disproportionate impact on poorer students

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Nick Gibb says he was ‘reassured’ after meeting with exam regulator

”We discussed that in great detail and I was reassured that it would not – and, in fact, it turned out it that did not.”

 

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