Appeal inequality

PRIVATE school students are three times more likely to appeal the results of their exams than youngsters at a local authority school.

Statistics from the Scottish Qualifications Authority showed that in 2015 independent schools appealed 6% of exam results compared with 2.1% of results that were appealed by council-run secondaries.

Labour education spokesman Iain Gray criticised the Scottish Government, saying: “Kezia Dugdale and I have raised this with SNP ministers again and again, but it seems that they could not care less about it.”