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Originally Posted by Pierre
But that would never be viable so.................
It’s all a mess, no one is really at fault, things could have been done better, hindsight is always 20:20, it was never going to please everyone, teachers are as much to blame as anyone, the Government got it wrong and then capitulated...........so why are people still whinging?
Any way, why isn’t the government ensuring the weather stays nice? They’ve had enough notice the weather was going to change and they’ve done nothing about it.
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I'm not sure that whinging is an accurate term. The issues seem to be:
- Some people whose grades have now been revised upwards cannot get onto the courses they want to because they are full.
- Universities who have increased their uptake on courses will face increased costs not fully covered by fees. Who will cover this?
- Gavin Williamson has tried to pretend that the situation came as a surprise. This is adding insult to injury. The situation was predicted back in July both in The Times Education Supplement
https://www.tes.com/news/exclusive-w...des-may-change and the Commons Education Committee warned him as well.
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And it was more than a month after the Commons Education Committee warned about the algorithm on July 10 - saying it risked "inaccuracy and bias against young people from disadvantaged backgrounds".
The damning report warned on July 10: "Ofqual’s standardisation model aims to adjust grades to ensure they are broadly in line with previous years.
"However, there are concerns about the risks of using historic data, which might not be fair for newer schools, or for improving and turnaround schools which are on an upward trajectory."
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...-only-22538255