Pressure grows on ministers over England A-level results 'mess'

Ministers are under immense pressure over the botched handling of English A-level results after Scotland announced a dramatic U-turn and major research showed that high-achieving pupils from poorer backgrounds are likely to be hardest hit.

Close the schools, turn them into Wetherspoons, employ all school-leavers as bottle washers and cleaners - put Dido Harding in charge. Everyone wins and Johnson romps the next election with a world-beating majority.

We'll all find out the damage tomorrow during the download. Going to be utterly ridiculous, considering I work at a school which has 40% disadvantaged students.

You say in this the uni minister wrote to VCs, asking them to be lenient with their offers - Didn't Universities say they wanted to make everyone unconditional offers, which would negate this issue, and that same minister wrote to VCs to stop that happening?

GeographyCarrie It's been a bit of a stressful year.

julesedwardo To add to that (already) sinking feeling, Jules. Let’s hope for the best 🙏🏻

Imagine if they just trusted the professionals who know the students and who spent hours on zoom meetings doing moderation and pouring over years of data to get accurate rankings with marks. Nah, just use an algorithm... (Very annoyed teacher)

After promising that Covid-19 won't affect anyone's result

It would be nice if you could occasionally give the state of affairs in Wales - we have the results at the same time you know!

most of the people in SW1 have time to make a protest

President Trump you have start worrying about this COVID-19 and start worrying about your Country People and Children that you love before the people will leave this world under your watch ENOUGH is Enough give the people HOPE and FAITH for leadership as a PRESIDENT OF AMERICA..

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

University clearing set to be the busiest ever, experts warn‘Pressure cooker’ A-level results day expected as Ucas predicts 80,000 students will use clearing BorbonesLadrones This won't affect any of the children of MPs by the way, who are either in private schools or in high-performing state schools whose suggested grades won't be downgraded. Thousands of young people are going to be screwed over by this and we're just walking into it. Appalling. The Catholic Church celebrates 700 years of formalising English and French. Universities in UK & Fr. the rector-committes set up by Rome gave us Queen's English for one. Basically to benefit the Church but the Anglo lingua-vulgaris is rampant in UK.. Shame..
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »