Originally Posted by OLD BOY

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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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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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.