Fair play for all pupils

JoHN Swinney’s move to reinstate exam marks originally awarded by schools is not the end of the matter.

If it is possible that some schools might have inflated their marks on the basis that they would be reduced, the children in these schools have hit the jackpot.

But there is a chance that pupils in schools which played by the rules and awarded more precise marks will have been disadvantaged.

In the interest of fairness, there must be a case for looking at figures across the board and increasing marks for these pupils in line with the national averages now being produced.

BoB PRoCToR, Cupar, Fife.

SCoTlANd once had a proud reputation in education. No longer.

The exams chaos must be seen in the context of the many other SNP failures. Have the Nationalists got anything right? despite this, the party is still buoyant in the polls.

What hope is there for the future if the general population appears to be happy with this situation?

We appear to be sleepwalking into a mediocre independence and the politicians steering the ship onto the very jagged rocks will simply swim off with a huge pension and leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

GERALD EDWARDS, Glasgow.

AS A result of the SNP u-turn, thousands more youngsters are now eligible for university, but the number of places remains roughly the same.

So has Nicola Sturgeon simply kicked the can along the road to the universities?

ALLAN SuTHERLAND, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.

A SIMPlE question for the Scottish Government: If results are marked down due to the historic performance of a school, who is responsible for that school not being improved?

ALEx PEARSoN, Alyth, Perthshire.