Millfield Headmaster Gavin Horgan condemns government and exam boards for ‘shameful approach’ of handling of results

Headmaster Gavin Horgan of Millfield School in Somerset, one of the largest co-educational independent schools in the UK, has condemned the handling of A level and GCSE results by the UK Sectretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson and exam boards, after students across the country were left without their grades on Results Day. The Headmaster has warned that the mishandling of results will lead to an educational crisis akin to post-war.

Headmaster Gavin Horgan says, "It is wonderful that in GCSEs, and at A-level, students will now gain the best grades possible in the circumstances. They absolutely deserve that, and they never deserved the shameful approach that was taken to get to this point by the Government and exam boards.

"However, bigger hurdles are ahead. The results received by students and the hiatus in education for many across the country, means that we will have legacy issues which will, in all likelihood, last a generation.

"The pressure on the university system, the threat to post-92 universities (which are a vital element of our further education tapestry), and the knock-on implications of grade inflation for Year 11 students going into A-level studies this year and for those same students next year when they look to apply to university, cannot simply be written off in the same way that results have been this year.

"Sadly, we are just at the very start of the problem.”