South Lanarkshire's elected members react to John Swinney's exams u-turn
of no confidence in the education secretary.” Cllr Ian Harrow, the Conservative group’s education spokesperson, said: “The fact that a school’s past performance was taken into account is the most concerning part of this whole shambles.“We encourage our pupils to try harder yet they were penalised by the performance of those who have gone before.“ What does that teach a student who wants to break out of the poverty they may be in? How does that encourage pupils to try harder?”SQA chief executive Fiona Robertson said: “Everyone at SQA fully acknowledges the strength of feeling about last week’s results among individual learners, their parents and carers and among wider colleagues in the education system.“As the deputy first minister has