You mean Ofqual who is ran by Roger Taylor who was hired by Justine Greening and paid 43 Grand a year to work a two day week? Who was a right wing financial Journo prior. Nah mate, government corruption couldn't possibly extend as far as non ministerial departments. Jokes aside, just looks like another privileged Tory taking his opportunity to wide the class gap to me. As far as conspiracy theories go It's hardly the crazy one bouncing about. Given the amount of privileged ****housery that's gone on this last decade.
Finally after all the heartache and confusion a U-turn has been made. I hope that all those disadvantage students that have made choices to their preferred University still are accepted. Though- it wouldn't surprise me because of this debacle that many of those places may now have been filled. Plus...Gavin Williamson should resign and shot with ****
Same as Scotland. We made a mistake and quickly amended the error. Kids will probably do better than ever with the way it has been scored.
Summed up brilliantly by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as he said the government had been "forced into a screeching U-turn after days of confusion".
That's got nowt to do with the poor kids having their futures ruined if they didn't stand up to the bullying, elitist actions of this government who could see what happened in Scotland and ridiculed their backing down still proclaiming England wouldnt do so until they have been forced to.
The review of the police investigation and CPS decision In January 2013, after Savile’s death and when his abuse had been revealed, an investigation into whether the CPS had been right not to charge Savile in 2009 was published by Alison Levitt QC. She was asked to investigate this by Mr Starmer. Ms Levitt said she had “reservations” about the prosecutor’s decision not to press charges. She said: “On the face of it, the allegations made were both serious and credible; the prosecutor should have recognised this and sought to “build” a prosecution.” She said the police treated the victims and the accounts they gave “with a degree of caution which was neither justified nor required”. Three of the victims told her that if they had received more information from the police at the time of the investigation—and particularly if each had been told she was not the only woman who had complained—they would “probably have been prepared to give evidence.” Ms Levitt said that, in the case of two of the allegations, there would have been a “realistic prospect of conviction” if the women had given evidence. “Having spoken to the victims I have been driven to conclude that had the police and prosecutors taken a different approach a prosecution might have been possible,” she wrote. Ms Levitt is critical of the approach taken by both the CPS’ reviewing lawyer and the police in failing to build a prosecution against Savile in 2009, but said there was no evidence of any “improper motive on the part of either police or prosecutors”. Following the review When the investigation report was published in January 2013, Mr Starmer said in a statement that he accepted the conclusions and hoped it would be a “watershed moment” for the CPS. He said: “I would like to take the opportunity to apologise for the shortcomings in the part played by the CPS in these cases. “These were errors of judgement by experienced and committed police officers and a prosecuting lawyer acting in good faith and attempting to apply the correct principles. That makes the findings of Ms Levitt’s report more profound and calls for a more robust response.” Later in 2013, the CPS updated its guidance on prosecuting child sexual abuse in England and Wales.
My teachers and the exam boards were spot on with their prediction/actual results when I sat my O Levels in 1982. The similarities were frightening in fact.
On paper yeah they probably will. The issue is though that the results are very time-sensitive, if you don't get the results on the day you lose your university place to other people that do. There will be a lot of, predominantly state school, children who got their grades bumped up after a few days but are now going to do Biological Sciences instead of medicine or dentistry; or pupils who have deferred to take up the place as they don't want to lose a place that is now full until 2021 admission. I was predicted AAB back in the day but went to a school where no-one in the year above me got a single A at A-level. Under this process I'd have been lucky to be given BCC (I got AAB in the exams) and there's no way I'd have got onto my Law course. My wife was predicted AAA but went to a private school so probably would have got AAA or AAB (she got ABB in her exams and ended up having to resit the year to get the AAB she needed) and she'd have waltzed onto her course.My main gripe is that the ones who have been shafted possibly will never know how much they've been shafted whereas the ones who have benefited will never see themselves as lucky. A great time to take a gap year of course. Get a job in the hospitality sector then travel the world...
What I find interesting is the shock that more higher grades were predicted than would normally occur. It's absolutely what you'd expect if it's done fairly and honestly. Example: Imagine a penalty shoot out. You're told that around 70% of penalties are scored in a shoot out so when the first person steps up you predict he's going to score, when the second steps up you predict he's going to score and finally after 10 penalties you've predicted each player will score as each player was more likely to score than miss. You're going with 5-5. Algorithm says "no only 70% should be scored so 3 should miss, the score is 4-3". How do you decide which 3 have missed? Well we'll just say it was the 2nd, 5th and 9th so Team B wins, well done them they get the trophy. Team A you lose, oh and those two players we predicted were going to miss have cost your team badly - their punishment is to be put in the reserves for all of next season whilst their team-mates move on. Because they missed those penalties, that they didn't get to take, but it was decided they just missed them.
I took O'Levels in 1965. I was no scholar ended up with 3. I did not feel any pressure to achieve or under achieve. But maybe thats just the way Ive been throughout my life. Not ambitious etcetc. I received the results via self addressed post card. There was no hype whatesoever about results in those days. I still don't get all the hype if Im honest and am not overkeen on watching all the kids being interviewed on results day. Mind I live in the past
What a shambolic debacle this is becoming. All the BTEC grades have been pulled now. Pearson said it would be re-grading all its BTecs to bring them in line with A-levels and GCSEs which are now being graded via school-based assessments. The 11th-hour move affects 575,000 pupils, 250,000 of whom received grades last week.
Mate of mine who works in a college said all the certs had been posted out today, to date that's 575000 envelopes and BTEC printed certificates that have been sent with wrong exam results - what a huge waste of money and resource. My daughter got a triple distinction last week on her final grades - I reckon her results will most likely improve as she been getting distinction stars throughout her previous two years of study. I've been reading that some Universities will be paying students to defer for a year because of the fiasco.
