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Despite being a carer for his mother since he started senior school, 18-year-old Keir Adeleke, from Newham, east London, was predicted A*AA in his A-levels this summer, and had an offer to study law at the prestigious King’s College London. But when his teacher-assessed grades came in at BBC, his hopes of getting into a leading university vanished.
Adeleke and many of his classmates at Havering sixth form college are claiming that New City College group (NCC), the academy chain that recently took over the college, unfairly marked down their teacher-assessed A-level grades using historical data from the college to guide their awards. Sixth formers and parents protested outside the college on 12 August, calling for remarking. Some of the teachers have also questioned grades.
