Schooling minister orders inquiry into disappointing ‘stuff-ups’

Schooling Minister Ben Carroll has referred to as for a full investigation into errors on this yr’s VCE exams, saying he’s disillusioned in a collection of “stuff-ups” that ought to by no means have occurred.

Carroll stated on Monday he had requested the Victorian Curriculum and Evaluation Authority (VCAA) to overview its processes after six college students have been incorrectly given the fallacious Chinese language language examination final week.

The incident adopted a variety of errors on this yr’s common and specialist maths exams, and complicated typos in a number of different assessments. 1000’s of common maths college students have already been awarded a bonus level as a result of one of many errors.

Carroll stated he requested the VCAA to make sure tutorial establishments have been extra intently concerned within the writing and vetting of future exams.

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The minister stated it was “traumatic” for something to go fallacious throughout a yr 12 examination and authorities had to make sure the identical errors weren’t repeated in future years.

Carroll stated he had met with VCAA for the reason that examination interval had begun and would meet with the authority once more on Monday.

“I’m disillusioned,” he stated. “The stuff-ups mustn’t have occurred within the first place. That’s why I’ve requested for a full overview.”

Remark has been sought from the VCAA.