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pupils from less advantaged backgrounds.An analysis of attendance shows pupils in poorer areas are more likely to have taken time off in the health crisis.Figures at the end of November showed attendance ranged from 85.3% in the most deprived areas to 93.5% in the least deprived.Labour education spokesman Iain Gray said: “This isn’t an easy call, but in the interests of the pupils of Scotland it is time for John Swinney to swallow his pride and cancel the higher and advanced higher exams.”Scotland’s public health minister is under fire for being “asleep” during a crisis - and should not be allowed to oversee the massive covid vaccine programme, Holyrood opposition MSPs demand.Joe FitzPatrick was criticised by Labour, Lib Dems and Tories who