Wales education minister, Kirsty Williams, has taken the descion to cancel GCSE and a-level examinations as "it was impossible to guarantee a level playing field for exams due to the ongoing impact of the covid pandemic" in a statement she stressed on Wednesday when announcing the nation.

The way students in Wales can still achieve work and their final grades is through assements that will be done under teacher supervision, and which will begin in the second half of the spring term, which is ensured to be fair to all pupils across Wales who were meant to have their exams. As many celebrate the cancellation of exams, many are deeply worried for their future as, from the BBC article, students expressed their concerns. A-level student Cerys Harris said she 'did not feel reassured' and was 'looking forward to more detail as to how the system is going to work.' With mixed emotions and feelings, where does this put the rest of the UK students at?

Following Wales descion and pressure on No 10, Boris Johnson's spokeman stated there is no plans for England to follow Wales due to how England is "lagging behind" according to unions and due to this "there's no change in our own position in relations to exams." However, education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has decided to push back exams slightly later this year to help with extra revision for lessons missed out during lockdown. Yet many across England are angered and demand cancellation for examinations from petitions to outcry on social media. Neverless, the petition on the parliament website to "cancel GCSES and A levels in 2021" has reached 164,909 signatures, making it considerable for a debate in Parliament.

To start with, lockdown has meant that pupils had missed so much work from online teaching as some students didn't have access to online learning, enabling them to miss out on key information for exams. Online teaching has also meant that pupils are able to get distracted easily as cameras and mics can be turnt off, making it more difficult for teachers to cheek in on pupils. Work can even be lost forever or erased online, also not guaranteeing safe revision notes in the future. Parents have also shared their concerns with exams going forward in support of pupils across the UK, whereby they also believe it's not fair and the goverment has not helped most pupils. Despite the frustration from the public, No 10 expresses that "exams are the fairest ways of judging pupils performance."