Grades u-turn revives Lauren’s dream of becoming a nurse
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A healthcare hero whose dreams of becoming a nurse were dashed in the SQA scandal says she can’t wait to start college as her Higher English grade is reinstated.Lauren Rooney, who directed support to coronavirus patients during the pandemic, was one of hundreds of Renfrewshire students who had their Higher grades slashed by the SQA.The exam body - which this year had to find a new way of grading students’ performance in absence of the usual exams - controversially looked at each school’s previous history of results and used that data to downgrade scores proposed by teachers.The decision, which downgraded the pass rate for the poorest pupils by