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Of course the guidance is unclear at best - but essentially it’s heading towards a position where this is mandatory. What that will practically look like in a years time is anyone’s guess, with technical colleges going down the T level route, schools and 6th form colleges with have to pick up...

The biggest failing of the algorithm was that it failed to take into account a similar process that had happened in school. Granted that hadn’t been done consistently as it could have been, but schools that tried to do things in the right way were doubly penalised. As for the GCSE’s - schools...

I don’t disagree - but now they’ve been given something to focus on.

A lot of it has been exacerbated firstly by Brexit, but especially by Cov-ID. You don’t have to like Sturgeon but her handling of the pandemic had been a hundred-fold better than Johnson. They want to eliminate the virus a bit like New Zealand had but they see the biggest threat to that coming...

Felt especially empowered since June 24th 2016

The government are remotely bothered about solving this problem. They’ve had 10 years so far and have made no progress at all. It’s much more beneficial to them to allow intolerance and hatred to grow, so they can wheel it out as a distraction technique everytime something else they are...

Your school sounds a bit shit to be fair. Not every school is like that. Don’t walk away too soon.

At least we have Starmer now telling us which are the right Jews to interact with.

Yes certainly I did that and I would assume that this happened in most schools. I did some work with our English department as their initial predictions were so out of kilter with their past performance and KS2 prior data that we had to adjust them The government guidance at the time was...

Maybe until we discover that we aren’t alone in the Universe we’ll carry on in the same manner.

I’d be intrigued to see how advanced civilisations like this and the Greeks really were. I’d wager it’s far more than we realise.

They were ranked within each grade, but schools weren’t told that a certain amount had to be of each grade. The HOD and SLT may then have been adjusted so the final submission was centre assessment not teacher assessment technically.

My school has about 40% EAL but I don’t think we do enough of it. However as the DFE don’t value ‘home language’ exams as they are only allowed to be in bucket 3 and can’t count in the EBACC schools decide it isn’t in the schools interest (never mind it being good for the kid)

Parents/students have to go through a subject access request if they want to challenge a grade we’ve given them. To be fair your HOD should be the one to deal with this as they would have signed off your grades so it’s on them now.

This is a side effect of this change. It will create some problems - significantly less than before but I’m sure your rationale will have been spot on.

This is why I think certain schools may have had advance knowledge of how this would work.

I read this particular story and it’s utterly disgraceful! Her predicted grade was C but she was bottom of the ranking. This just demonstrates about the lacking of basic competency here - if that’s gone through any kind of QA post algorithm it gets corrected.

There’s always the danger of people being over promoted beyond their competence.....

They wheeled out a guy from Ofqual to do the announcement/apology. Doesn’t even have the balls to do it himself.

No it’s a home language exam - relatively common these days.