The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

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I can’t abide his whiny voice, especially so early in the morning.

He seems to be saying that they ignored select committee because they believed disadvantaged and BAME would be OK. But they weren't!

Or were they assured rich BAME were OK, so it didn't matter??

He has no spontaneity!!

I always feel guilty that I can’t stand his voice, as it is something he can’t help, but God it grates, never mind the rubbish he says!

I agree : I have to check myself and tell myself off for expecting politicians to have RP and I imagine the public school cabinet laugh behind his back. But it is combined with his incompetence.

Oh he CANNOT go off script. What a tosser! He didn't even show any sadness about the girl who missed Cambridge.

He himself did badly in A Levels : do you think inside his head he is thinking 'so what? Look at what I achieved?'

@Piggywaspushed
she thought it was 'kind' of the government to 'listen to them' and they had now shown they could do the right thing

I think that says it all though. What kind of people have to show that they can do the right thing?

How long has knowing UCAS predictions been a thing? We definitely didn't know ours when I was in college.

That was such a frustrating interview. I often wonder why they bother interviewing them, we know exactly how it's going to play out even before they open their mouths.

Local to me: www.expressandstar.com/news/education/2020/08/17/students-walk-down-to-gavin-williamsons-office-to-demand-u-turn-over-a-level-chaos/

Such a tosser.

He has confused me witht the issuing of grades now!

Is he trying to throw teachers under a bus here? Make sure they know their CAGs first so the can whine about us?

But he juts said they would get whichever is higher on Thursday? Where's our friendly neighbourhood exams officer? She didn't know this last night!

They are removing all transparency now and need to be called to account....

And they are causing even more confusion!!

@Piggywaspushed

Oh he CANNOT go off script. What a tosser! He didn't even show any sadness about the girl who missed Cambridge.

He himself did badly in A Levels : do you think inside his head he is thinking 'so what? Look at what I achieved?'

But Piggy doesn't everyone know someone that can hand them their first managing director position in their very early twenties?

I don’t think there’s any conspiracy or malice, just pure stupidity.

He just said CAGs or 'algorithm' grades will be given tomorrow, whichever is higher. Then official certification next week.

How the F are schools supposed to sort that? I predict some stressed SLT and a million spreadsheets today.

So open to school clerical errors now!

I hate UCAS predictions because I hate students coming to me and saying "oh but I need an A for the course I want". Well that's lovely but you're not going to get an A...so no. And then some other plonked changes it up!!!

But that must mean schools are getting the algorithm results?? All of them?

I think there is conspiracy and malice. It's all this government does.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-53815080

Am enjoying the front page images today.

I do think he's about the most (academically) stupid politician for a very long time.

When I was at school, teachers NEVER predicted anyone a top grade. They used to say "we daren't; we get in trouble if you don't achieve it..." So the the four of us in my year who got straight As at A level were each predicted straight Bs and so on down the grades. (You could still potentially secure a top Uni offer with B predictions because you had to sit the aptitude test and be interviewed.)

So, results day was always unexpectedly good news at my school .

I liked this one:

@MrsHamlet

I hate UCAS predictions because I hate students coming to me and saying "oh but I need an A for the course I want". Well that's lovely but you're not going to get an A...so no. And then some other plonked changes it up!!!

Yup have had this once or twice.

@MrsHamlet

I hate UCAS predictions because I hate students coming to me and saying "oh but I need an A for the course I want". Well that's lovely but you're not going to get an A...so no. And then some other plonked changes it up!!!

Yup this happens at my place. Meetings with parents and sixth form team until basically brow beaten into awarding the grade. Obviously if there’s hard core evidence such as long absence, below C grade consistently but apart from grades are often changed.

Not sure we should assume Gav knows what his policy is. Isn’t this the point in the fiasco where they send someone out who gets the policy wrong and then they have to send out someone else to fix the mistake made in the previous interview?

Same here re UCAS we basically get bullied into predicting higher so they can apply with us saying fine but you must have a fall back option with our grades. ‘Just in case’. When I was at school we knew our UCAS grades but it wasn’t negotiable it was ‘this is the predictions now apply around that’.

Our actual CAGs are considerably lower for some students than our UCAS predicted grades so they'll be some pissed of kids if they think they're getting their ucas grades

I feel for the universities who will now have the wrong kids on courses which will lead to a higher drop out rate or students blaming Covid education as the reason they got a 2.2