Not necessarily as they have the option of either adjustment or to self release into clearing if they receive an offer from another, more preferred university.
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The rumour now is that the OFS introduced cap on student numbers (home/EU only) is not going to be enforced and at least one Russell Group Uni is rumoured to already be 2000 students over the cap!!
I read this particular story and it’s utterly disgraceful! Her predicted grade was C but she was bottom of the ranking.
Read some of these stories and try not to be fucking angry - the girl who was downgraded to a U in maths because someone once got a U from her school and the "standardisation"decided some from her school needed to get a U this year
This is why I think certain schools may have had advance knowledge of how this would work.
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.The truth is that if a decision seems unpopular they reverse it and that forms the basis of how they govern. Now he has done something that will tell all of my students what grade I thought they should get.
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.
Which was my original point about competition for places at for instance, Medical Schools and top universities will have only limited places. This year's cohort in the aggregate have had grades massively over-predicted at the top end.Also kids who wanted to study to be a doctor are in trouble as these places are capped by the DHSC and Oxbridge colleges just don't have the capacity to take many people in.
You also have to take into account the issues with social distancing and you can see that a lot of these kids that have lost places are in the shit
[/QUOTE]Which was my original point about competition for places at for instance, Medical Schools and top universities will have only limited places. This year's cohort in the aggregate have had grades massively over-predicted at the top end.
A lot of students who get their teacher assessed grades this year who would otherwise not have performed as well in an examination cycle will have their competitiveness level artificially inflated. So the only way to square this next year would be for Medical schools, Oxbridge etc to allocate the same proportion of places to 'reapplicants' as they would in any ordinary year, lest we end up with a situation where there are too many over-qualified candidates who picked up their 'exam results' this year getting places at the expense of more able students next year. Interviews could help with this.
This will screw over competent students from next year who will have missed months of teaching and also have to take the exams. I'm all for the concessions but the grades from this 2020 cohort must be presented to employers in future as a 'teacher predicted' grade and only that. Also disadvantages the genuinely able from this year's cohort who won't be able to differentiate themselves.
There's going to be serious implications for comparability as lots of students will reapply in an attempt to get into a 'better' university.
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.
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.I’m thinking more in terms of receiving waves of parental complaints and queries-it puts us in an impossible position
All the places haven’t been taken and even some of the Russell Groups are struggling to fill their places.No one is going to release into clearing as all the places have been taken and how to do you get a more preferred univewrsity than your first choice?
Removing the cap does free up more places but these places aren't unlimited as all they are likely to be is UK students replacing international students who don't come. Universities will still have a finite amount of kids they can teach a year.
All the places haven’t been taken and even some of the Russell Groups are struggling to fill their places.
The option is now there for the students to contact universities to see if there are opportunities to ‘trade up’. Plus students may not have chose X university as their firm as they felt the conditions of their offer were unachievable yet in clearing universities lower these, some by a lot, giving students a better chance.
The cap was introduced to try and help out some of the smaller or lower ranked universities losing their students to higher ranked universities attempting to recruit as many students as possible due to a number of universities being in precarious positions financially (between 25 and 30 I hear). Lifting the cap now, after the OFS taking such a hard line, would be laughable and potentially see the demise of numerous universities.
Obviously places will depend on the physical space universities have but believe me if universities have an opportunity to over recruit this year they definitely will.
With regards to international students many are still planning to come to the UK but naturally this is going to be a lot lower this year and particularly from key markets such as China, Hong Kong, Nigeria etc for obvious reasons.
In fairness to LG given what he does I would suggest he knows quite a bitmost places have been taken already but you know better than the education experts
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In fairness to LG given what he does I would suggest he knows quite a bit
It does matter I know, I just find it sickening to see it exploited.
The truth is that if a decision seems unpopular they reverse it and that forms the basis of how they govern. Now he has done something that will tell all of my students what grade I thought they should get.
Well this isn't annoying
It'd be revealing to know the extent to which the message of "don't overload the NHS" , specifically in relation to Covid and other conditions individually,lead to poor outcomes.
NHS coronavirus triage hotline stops nurses handling calls over safety fears
Exclusive: Nursing and non-medical staff stopped from taking calls after more than half of those audited were unsafewww.independent.co.uk
Loads of kids do that. What next? Stop kids playing in the CCFC academy from taking PE?
Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England
Tory peer has been widely criticised over responsibility for England’s test-and-trace systemwww.theguardian.com
Did someone say something about being promoted over your ability level?
Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England
Tory peer has been widely criticised over responsibility for England’s test-and-trace systemwww.theguardian.com
Did someone say something about being promoted over your ability level?
Girl I went to primary with moved to Germany for about 5 years. Came back and saw her in 6th form and she was doing German A level. Don't think she had to bother going to lessons other than to find out about exam structure etc.
Am I the only one that wants to go to a water park rave now? And I can’t swim or dance.
Which was my original point about competition for places at for instance, Medical Schools and top universities will have only limited places. This year's cohort in the aggregate have had grades massively over-predicted at the top end.
A lot of students who get their teacher assessed grades this year who would otherwise not have performed as well in an examination cycle will have their competitiveness level artificially inflated. They may then decide to 'take a punt' and apply to what they perceive as a more prestigious place next year, instead of taking up a place at their university this year.
So the only way to square this next year would be for Medical schools, Oxbridge etc to allocate the same proportion of places to 'reapplicants' as they would in any ordinary year, lest we end up with a situation where there are too many over-qualified candidates who picked up their 'exam results' this year getting places at the expense of more able students next year. Interviews could help with this.
I was thinking if a student missed out on their place this year many of them might reapply next year and have a gap year. With all the pandemic stuff next year might well be a difficult one to start uni with disrupted classes, accommodation etc.
Plus if the A levels students also suffer in terms of being able to be taught this year but have to sit the exams there may be a drop off in grades next year so this years kids upgraded results makes them more likely to get into a better uni.
Although I expect we're going to have a similar situation next year with kids wanting upgrading to reflect the disruption.
Not sure a gap year in a huge recession with no global travel will work out too well TBF.
And yeah something will happen next year, kids have missed a term of prep and that’s going to show.
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)I hate a mate who did Urdu GCSE at school. Why not recognise talents TBH? I walked through Computing because I practiced it at home from an early age. Ditto my sister and Dance.
Weren’t they centre assessed? Was there no standardisation and moderation process?
Not sure a gap year in a huge recession with no global travel will work out too well TBF.
And yeah something will happen next year, kids have missed a term of prep and that’s going to show.
In my case I gave a grade and then the students were ranked across the year by mock result and topic test average. It would still be perceived as ‘my’ choice
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