GCSE and A-level examinations could be brought forward for hundreds of thousands of pupils to avoid a clash with Ramadan under controversial proposals.
Teachers and lecturers in England and Wales are pushing for the summer exam timetable to be altered to help Muslim students who will be fasting when they sit papers.
School exam boards and universities are considering the radical shake-up from 2016, when the religious period of Ramadan clashes with the exam season.
[A COMMENT] Muslims do not have to fast during Ramadan. They can make up for it at another tome of the year. Keep the exams as they are and stop giving special attention to this group.
[ANOTHER] Is there anything else that we can change for them while we're at it? There can't be many things left!!! [Daily Mail] Read more
