Stormont could be recalled on Tuesday to address the crisis over school leavers’ grades this week.
The SDLP has tabled a petition today to recall the Assembly, after 11,000 A-Level grades were slashed by a secret algorithm imposed on pupils by CCEA.
Daniel McCrossan MLA, said: “We’re not letting this stand. If the Minister won’t change his mind, Stormont will debate the reasons why.
“I would ask the public to lobby their MLAs and ask them where they stand. Many students across Northern Ireland feel robbed of a fair chance. It's not good enough.
“The SDLP has tabled a petition to recall the Assembly to urgently address the crisis over exam grading.
“The Minister for Education and Joint First Ministers must be held to account.
"I submitted a petition to the business office on behalf of the SDLP to recall the Assembly on Tuesday because this situation just cannot wait.
"If the minister won't move, we will act instead. Young people's dreams cannot be put on hold by any minister.
"The system failed and we must protect our kids."
And it can be revealed the examining board CCEA, paid a data analyst more than £100,000 to support their grading.
Mr McCrossan said: “PWC charged them £101,667. I think they should ask for their money back.”
The politician quizzed CCEA chief Justin Edwards in a special sitting of the Education Committee on Friday.
And Mr McCrossan put it to Mr Edwards that he had not replied to a renowned educationalist who predicted the fall-out which has happened in Northern Ireland.
Mr Edwards confirmed he had been warned about the modified grading system, described as ‘indefensible’ by Dr Hugh Morrison and said he had not shared the information with Education Minister Peter Weir.
A spokesman for PWC said: "The remit of our work was to create a predictive grade modeller using the same data and methodology as that used by CCEA so that it could compare its own results with those from an independent execution of its model.
"We did not influence or verify the methodology which CCEA provided.”
A spokeswoman for PwC said: "PwC had no involvement in the design of the methodology used and was not involved in the determination of pupil grades."
