Education Secretary John Swinney urged to sack board of "not fit for purpose" exams quango
Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), which was slammed over a pupil grading scandal, should have a majority of teachers and lectures on its governing body.MSP Ross Greer said: “The current board just don’t have the educational expertise needed for this important role, so I have asked the Education Secretary to request their resignations.”The SQA was the focus of pupil and parental fury last year over the way the body was calculating final grades.The pandemic resulted in exams being cancelled and the SQA helped craft an alternative.Under the botched system, estimated grades would be based on teacher judgement and then ‘moderated’ by the SQA.In practice, moderation resulted in pupils from poorer backgrounds being marked down.A panicked