Thread: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Old 18-08-2020, 17:52   #32
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
Ofqual, Civil Service ?? Make your mind up ! The beauty of public servants for politicians is that they can't answer back. Just like PHE are to blame for Coronavirus, any scapegoat will do, to detract from Government incompetence.

However, who is in charge, formulates policy and creates these organisations ? The buck stops with the Govt, they are responsible for the for the layers of bureaucracy who are just carrying out Gov. policy.
You mean they are expected to take care of the detail of public policy. The government set out what's required and the government expect them to do it correctly.

Are you saying the government should not be relying on these people to get it right?

Ofqual is a quango, those employed there are public servants, just like those employed in government departments. They are mostly as bad as each other.

The buck might well stop at the government, but the officers are actually responsible for the cock-ups.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
I've been digging into the way the algorithm was tested.

https://unherd.com/2020/08/how-ofqua...lgorithm-test/



Remember, the politicians called the algorithm "robust" when they either had no idea of its robustness or they were lying - most likely the former in which case someone must resign on grounds of incompetence.
Or maybe, that's how Ofqual officials described it to ministers - robust. However you look at this, our Ofqual 'experts' should have known better.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
It's not about who designed the algorithm, it's how the situation was handled once the implications of the algorithm were known. This was in the hands of the Government. The correct response was to accept teachers' predictions and this happened in Scotland. In England, the government doubled down for four days before accepting teachers' predictions.
The government was conflicted, because it did not want to devalue the qualifications allocated this year. So it took them four days to work out a solution, big deal. I'm glad to see that out of all the options they had before them, they took the right one. Now they just need to make sure that the universities make allowances for this and agree to take on those who would have unfairly missed out.
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