Pupils granted extra time in exams due to disability (FOI)

​​Request 702502106

​1. How many pupils in each of the last five years have been given extra time to complete exams at island schools due to a disability? 

2. Can I have a list of disabilities that qualify students to have extra time to complete their exams? 

3. Each year, can you tell me on how many occasions each disability was cited as a reason to successfully apply for extra time to complete exams?

Response

1. Schools do not hold this information consistently in a recordable format, in order to provide the number of students per secondary school who were afforded extra time in GCSE examinations in the last 5 years would require analysis of each individual exam record. The department have determined that to produce the data would take in excess of 12.5 working hours therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

2. All schools are required to follow the Joint Council for Qualifications - Adjustments for candidates with disabilities and learning difficulties - Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments, information can be found here: 

JCQ - ​​Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments

​​Schools are inspected annually by JCQ for compliance against this policy.

3. Schools do not hold this information consistently in a recordable format, in order to provide the number of students per secondary school who were afforded extra time in GCSE examinations in the last 5 years for each disability category would require analysis of each individual exam record. The department have determined that to produce the data would take in excess of 12.5 working hours therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

Article Applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.​