GCSE’s taken in June were graded lower than that of their peers a few months earlier in January. Students who received a D grade in June would have received a C grade at the start of the year.
Up to 100 of these will be students from Luton Sixth Form College.
A spokesman for Luton Sixth Form college said: “We are having to run an additional 3 classes this year, 15 in total, as opposed to 12 last year, as a direct result of students not getting a Grade C in this summers exam results”.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) as part of a coalition of councils, schools, and professional bodies are mounting a legal challenge against Ofqual and examiantion boards AQA and Edexcel.
Dave Mingay, Secretary of the NUT in Luton, said: “This is the next step in the campaign to rectify the huge injustice
suffered by many pupils, teachers and schools in Luton over this year’s English GCSE fiasco.
“Retaking the GCSE examinations is just not an acceptable option. In Wales the situation was resolved by the Welsh Government ordering a re-grading, not re-sits of GCSEs. If it can be done in Wales it must be done in England. This is such a manifestly unfair situation that the NUT has no other option but to pursue legal redress.”
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