Are GCSEs 2021 Cancelled Northern Ireland?

Are GCSEs 2021 Cancelled Northern Ireland? GCSE, AS and A-Level exams in Northern Ireland will take place again in the 2021/22 school year. However pupils taking those qualifications through the CCEA exams board will sit “significantly fewer” exams in each subject. That is according a statement in the assembly from the Education Minister Peter Weir.