A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
This years 16yr olds are 40% cleverer than last year too!
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20-08-2020, 10:50
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
Here it comes, the next cabinet reshuffle 
I'd suggest Fisheries to Transport, Education to Public Health (or whatever it's called now), Transport moves to Foreign Policy, and Jfman to Business & Commerce.
That should sort things quite nicely, leaving those who miss out on a new role the freedom to post their "I could do better" rants on Twitter & Facebook 
*smirks and goes off to listen to 'Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot' *
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20-08-2020, 10:52
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Originally Posted by Carth
Here it comes, the next cabinet reshuffle
I'd suggest Fisheries to Transport, Education to Public Health (or whatever it's called now), Transport moves to Foreign Policy, and Jfman to Business & Commerce.
That should sort things quite nicely, leaving those who miss out on a new role the freedom to post their "I could do better" rants on Twitter & Facebook
*smirks and goes off to listen to 'Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot' * |
And maybe creating a Minister of Streaming too. 
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20-08-2020, 10:59
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Originally Posted by Carth
Here it comes, the next cabinet reshuffle
I'd suggest Fisheries to Transport, Education to Public Health (or whatever it's called now), Transport moves to Foreign Policy, and Jfman to Business & Commerce.
That should sort things quite nicely, leaving those who miss out on a new role the freedom to post their "I could do better" rants on Twitter & Facebook
*smirks and goes off to listen to 'Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot' * |
Complete lack of balance, Squire.
OB to International Trade.
Hugh? Hmmm.
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20-08-2020, 11:07
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Hugh? Hmmm.
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Defence or Education.
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20-08-2020, 11:15
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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This years 16yr olds are 40% cleverer than last year too!
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Wonder if teachers will get a pay rise on the back of these results.
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20-08-2020, 11:28
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Wonder if teachers will get a pay rise on the back of these results.
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I doubt it..  After all blame has to be apportioned somewhere by this government.
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20-08-2020, 11:29
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Complete lack of balance, Squire.
OB to International Trade.
Hugh? Hmmm.
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Something to do with booze and eating out 
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20-08-2020, 12:12
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
No words.
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A company run by long–term associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings has been working behind the scenes with the exams agency Ofqual on its disastrous strategy for determining A-level results, the Guardian can reveal.
Public First, a policy and research firm owned by James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, who both formerly worked for Gove, has been involved on the project with Ofqual since June after being granted a contract that was not put out to competitive tender.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...?ocid=msedgntp
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20-08-2020, 12:23
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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If the Guvmin needs to do something in a hurry, then the competitive tender process probably hinders that. No idea if that's the case in this instance, but from my past responsibilities in local government, and having regard for contract value thresholds and/or any available derogations, I know how important that degree of freedom can be.
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20-08-2020, 12:24
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
Touch of jealousy because your firm didn't get the contract Andrew?
We all know, and have for years, that they're all ' in it together' whether it's Conservative, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP etc. I find it surprising that people are still surprised by this
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20-08-2020, 12:34
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Defence or Education.
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Why not both?
Anyhoo, I have been pleasantly surprised by the positive messages of support on this forum towards the students who are going through a very stressful time in their lives, and through no fault of their own, have had a very important part of their education banjaxed, which could affect a reasonable number of their futures.
I thought some of our posters were cynical, cold-hearted, and unfeeling, but the deep understanding, compasssion, empathy, and sympathy shown to these teenagers in this very difficult time, and the warm messages of support, just showed me I was wrong...
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20-08-2020, 13:37
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Touch of jealousy because your firm didn't get the contract Andrew?
We all know, and have for years, that they're all ' in it together' whether it's Conservative, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP etc. I find it surprising that people are still surprised by this |
Not my line of business but I'm left speechless that yet another uncontracted tender fails and now we learn it's Gove's mates. The country seems to be going backwards in terms of transparency. We're becoming more the English Patient and less Great Britain. False equivalence should not trump democratic scrutiny.
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Why not both?
Anyhoo, I have been pleasantly surprised by the positive messages of support on this forum towards the students who are going through a very stressful time in their lives, and through no fault of their own, have had a very important part of their education banjaxed, which could affect a reasonable number of their futures.
I thought some of our posters were cynical, cold-hearted, and unfeeling, but the deep understanding, compasssion, empathy, and sympathy shown to these teenagers in this very difficult time, and the warm messages of support, just showed me I was wrong... |
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If the Guvmin needs to do something in a hurry, then the competitive tender process probably hinders that. No idea if that's the case in this instance, but from my past responsibilities in local government, and having regard for contract value thresholds and/or any available derogations, I know how important that degree of freedom can be.
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In which case, don't pick up the phone to your mates so that there are no suspicions of corruption.
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20-08-2020, 14:31
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Why not both?
Anyhoo, I have been pleasantly surprised by the positive messages of support on this forum towards the students who are going through a very stressful time in their lives, and through no fault of their own, have had a very important part of their education banjaxed, which could affect a reasonable number of their futures.
I thought some of our posters were cynical, cold-hearted, and unfeeling, but the deep understanding, compasssion, empathy, and sympathy shown to these teenagers in this very difficult time, and the warm messages of support, just showed me I was wrong... |
 
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20-08-2020, 23:13
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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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I doubt it.. After all blame has to be apportioned somewhere by this government. |
I wouldn’t expect a pay rise either if I’d caused a national embarrassment by handing out A’s like fortune cookies at A and GCSE level.
http://news.sky.com/story/gcse-resul...rades-12052904
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And there's been a 40% increase in the number of grade 9's awarded. That's the very top mark.
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. Must be great to mark your own work and reassure yourself at how good a teacher you are. Like loving the smell of your own farts.
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