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Metro mayor Steve Rotheram mentioned college students had been left “in limbo” by the delay
A mayor has described the delay in college students receiving their BTec outcomes as “merely incomprehensible”.
Liverpool’s metro mayor Steve Rotheram has written to England Training Minister Nick Gibb concerning the delay which has left college students “in limbo”.
1000’s of BTec college students are nonetheless awaiting their outcomes, together with 170 – many from deprived backgrounds – at Liverpool Metropolis School.
The Division For Training has been contacted for a remark.
Mr Rotheram mentioned he had been knowledgeable by the school’s principal Elaine Bowker that the extent three college students had “no concept when their outcomes will arrive.”
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BTec college students ought to have had their outcomes final week
He mentioned the school ought to have obtained an embargoed set of outcomes by midnight on 12 August.
This didn’t occur and an extra deadline 24 hours later was additionally missed.
“A variety of the 170 college students who’re nonetheless awaiting outcomes are from deprived backgrounds, that means these college students are presently going through additional obstacles to these which already existed,” Mr Rotheram wrote.
“They’re liable to going through further limitations if they don’t have entry to their outcomes urgently, enabling them to make necessary selections about their future training or employment.”
He continued: “It’s merely incomprehensible this state of affairs ought to run right into a second week.
“I’m due to this fact requesting that you just and the division intervene to carry this case to a passable conclusion.”
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