An entire class of Inverness students has failed their course – forcing education bosses to launch an investigation.
Twenty students sitting the Higher Media course at Inverness College UHI all received “No Award” grades when their results were released earlier this week.
The college has insisted that the embarrassing set of results were delivered despite quality assurance processes being in place.
They have now asked the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) to investigate the results.
But angry students have to taken to social media to criticise the college for a lack of support during the course – while saying that they would now need to change their plans to go to university.
One post from a student, which was being shared widely on social media yesterday, read: “This is awful. Myself and others have had to make changes to our university plans and it is time to act.”
The post urged classmates to speak out about problems they faced, including “how throughout the whole year we were given very little support.
“How the online system was never updated and we were left with few resources.
“UHI are doing a ‘high priority’ investigation into what happened but we will only see re-marked results by August 29.
The post added: “This has changed our future. We can’t do much at this stage, but we can tell whoever will listen.”
Diane Rawlinson, principal and chief executive at Inverness College UHI, said: “At Inverness College UHI we take exam results and student success very seriously.
“This is evidenced by the excellent HMIE report we received earlier this year as well as the year on year improvements to attainment levels we have achieved in both Further and Higher education.
“As we do every year, we are undertaking a review of all published results comparing them against those projected for each student.
“In the case of this particular course, the usual quality assurance processes were in place and the awarding body verifier recently reported “significant strengths in the delivery and management of this award” and confirmed that “assessment judgements were consistent with the national standards set.”
“SQA are currently investigating this matter at our request.”