Submitting... But he confirmed an appeals process would be announced as he was called to the Scottish Parliament to answer an urgent question after mounting concern over assessments. Scottish students staged protests in Edinburgh and Glasgow last year over the SQA's exam marking scheme. Newly-elected Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone allowed a question from Scottish Conservative education spokesman Jamie Greene, asking the government to respond to “the reported growing and widespread concern over the 2021 Scottish Qualification Authority’s examination, assessment and awards process”. Mr Greene said the “non-exam exams” had been described as another “unfolding debacle” by Professor Mark Priestley, author of the review into the chaos of the 2020 SQA exam diet.