to pre-pandemic rates to ensure 'robustness' in the system, schools minister says
- Schools minister defended this year's record drop in grades as preserving rigour
- Will Quince said 'businesses, employers, universities and young people' want it
- While it was right to allow 'exceptional measures' during Covid, they must cease
- In 2020 about 45 per cent of grades were A or A*, nearly double 2019 levels