It’s been revealed that exam board Edexcel used their administative and secretarial staff to mark GCSE papers. GCSE results come out this Thursday, and the board said they were forced to bring in the extra staff because of the pressure to get the papers marked in time.

They’re at the same time every year, Edexcel. Did it come as a surprise to you? Did the long summer draw out, and suddenly it was ‘that time of year again’?

Seeing as that is kind of the only requirement of their jobs, it would seem a little short-sighted that they didn’t think last month “Perhaps we should get a few more professionals in to mark those papers”.

Having said that, maybe they’ll be marked more fairly this year.

(via Sky News)