Dear oh dear. Scotland’s secondary school results are in – and it’s not looking good for John Swinney’s SNP government. As vast numbers of nervous students are anxiously awaiting exam outcomes that could decide whether they get a university place, it transpires that hundreds of school pupils have instead received ‘blank’ emails this morning. Not like the Nats to underperform, eh?
Just under 150,000 pupils in Scotland are due to receive the results of their national exams today and students had the option to receive these over text, by email and by post. But many of those who signed up for email results – which were expected to come in at 8am this morning – received an, er, blank template rather than their final grades. Scotland’s exam board has said it is working to ‘urgently resolve an issue’ and added that exam results will also be delivered by post, but frustrated parents have taken to social media to blast the soon-to-be-replaced
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