Mark Dawe

Exam board chief executive apologises

Mark Dawe, the Chief Executive of the OCR exam board, apologises for errors in the marking of last year's GCSE and A-Level papers.

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Thousands await GCSE results

Students sit their GCSEs
Students sit their GCSEs Credit: PA

Thousands of students across the region will be collecting their GCSE results later today.

This could be one of the last school years to take the exams as the government is looking at plans to scrap the qualifications altogether.

It wants to introduce what it says would be tougher tests more geared towards the workplace.

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