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| Subject: Fury as education regulator tells universities that marking students down for bad spelling is ELITIST Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:52 pm | |
| University students will not be marked down for poor spelling, grammar and punctuation in exams because it would be 'elitist'.
Academics have been told that insisting on good written English discriminates against ethnic minorities and those who went to 'underperforming' schools.
The Office for Students wants to reduce the gap between the proportion of white and black students gaining good degrees and cut dropout rates among poorer students.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9457171/Fury-education-regulator-tells-universities-marking-students-bad-spelling-ELITIST.html
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