@Bouledeneige
I saw this too:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/12421075/uturn-gcses-a-levels-announcement/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly
I actually can't work out how a U turn would now work with the university courses that are now full. If a student who was given downgraded marks then get re-assessed back up to predictions and then qualifies for the course they wanted in the first place. What happens for those courses which have now been filled?
Wouldn't you have to now kick out students already accepted to allow re-graded students their rightful places? Or would it have to be for next yea's entry? You can't then tell students who did get places that they are now being kicked out can you?
And, just to check does anyone know if the algorithm only resulted in downgrades or did some marks go up compared with predictions? I'm presuming no ones suggesting then downgrading other students....
I am all for the fairness to those (usually state school educated) kids who were unfairly downgraded but I'm not sure how workable it will be with university places agt least for this year's entry.
If the university course is full then I don’t see there is anything the university can do about. They are already committed to other students. The only consolation the student with new grades has isthat they now have grades that correctly reflect their ability and can now reapply for the course they missed out on next year.
The algorithm would’ve benefitted some students upwards. If they are in a school with a previously high attainment cohort, even if that student is mediocre, they will benefit from the previous yrs results and get a higher grade than they would have achieved on their own.
If the algorithm is overturned and replaced with CAGs I would expect that where the calculated grade is higher, it will be allowed to stand.
My DS is at an Indy, so I would hope there would be fairness applied across everyone and every independent school where they have been downgraded.