'A' Level grades - how about a sensible discussion....

ericmark said:
I did study English at CSE and 'O' level but not 'A' level, having the ability to speak Welsh opens up far more doors than English where I live. Very few people need accurate English, lawyers etc, but even journalists seem to use an English never taught at school.
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My apologies, but it was meany as a joke.
I didn't realise that you were bilingual, and may I add my admiration for your ability.


Edit: Just re-read my comment, and realised I'd made a spelling mistake. I was going to correct it to: "but it was meant as a joke".
Then I realised, perhaps it's better left as a Freudian slip.
 
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University degrees are moderated, internally, then the external moderators come in and sample test the results, sometimes talking to students to get a fair idea of the dept.

Schools should (imho) have a more consistent "mock" system. I was quite surprised that it was very much left to individual schools to sort mocks/predicted grades. A bit of moderation between schools might help consistency in the future?

Now that the Government has changed the results, loads of university places have been already allocated. Some students may decide that the place they accepted on Friday is no longer what they want, some students who missed their grades may wish to take up the places that they "lost" .

The Government determine how many places a University may offer- accept more than your limit and the Uni gets a fine greater than the student fees. However, the limit has been lifted. So you may get a university that in January had plans for 80 students in a cohort. But due to government policy, suddenly they have 100.

Most uk universities have financial issues as they had to pay a lot of money back to students, and would love the extra income but at the same time have to deal with Covid measures, spacing, distance learning and other issues

A fair few universities may go bust in the next 5-7 years
 
Tigercubrider said:
I was quite surprised that it was very much left to individual schools to sort mocks/predicted grades. A bit of moderation between schools might help consistency in the future?
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But that is the unintended (or intended?) consequence of having a privatised education system where individual/chain schools can make up their own rules...

Academies don't have to follow any curriculum or even employ qualified teachers!

And the 'elite' schools can just sit back and rely on previous results!
 
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There is a lot of bluff coming from universities, using it as an excuse to demand funding. I can see there will be challenges on certain courses needing equipment, placements etc. Such as medicine. But these will be the minority.
 
motorbiking said:
There is a lot of bluff coming from universities, using it as an excuse to demand funding. I can see there will be challenges on certain courses needing equipment, placements etc. Such as medicine. But these will be the minority.
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It's not a bluff, it's a business requirement since education is a state subsidised business...

And as for medicine, ever wondered why there are so many foreign trained doctors in the NHS?

Because there is a cap on the number of places in the UK for financial reasons!
 
All sorted now?

"BTec results pulled at last minute as UK exam chaos continues
Vocational qualifications for nearly 500,000 students recalled in wake of GCSE and A-level U-turns"

Nope.
 
It's all becoming a bit clearer (or not)...

"A company run by long–term associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings has been working behind the scenes with the exams agency Ofqual on its disastrous strategy for determining A-level results...

Public First, a policy and research firm owned by James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, who both formerly worked for Gove, has been involved on the project with Ofqual since June after being granted a contract that was not put out to competitive tender.

Details of the contract have not been made public and Ofqual declined to say how much public money had been spent hiring Public First."

More evidence of the corruption that is taking place under the umbrella of the 'emergency legislation'!

No wonder it is to last so long, and with no 'sunset clause'!

"A spokesperson for Ofqual said it initially contracted Public First without a tender to work on “insight on public opinion for this year’s exam arrangements”. The spokesperson added: “Public First is currently assisting Ofqual’s small communications team with an unprecedented amount of media interest in a complex policy area.”

Most people could have told them for free that they and the government had (insert word) up!
 
i'm finding this whole thing very confusing and i feel sorry for the students. it is a bit of a mess.

I cant understand how such a simple action has been monumentally cocked up.
 
Boris and his brown touch?
CV19, exam fiasco and Brexit?
All turned to shoite by the man who can't.....
 
sxturbo said:
I cant understand how such a simple action has been monumentally cocked up.
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I believe it's called 'taking advantage of the situation', in order to further enhance the grip that the elite has on the throat of england!

Luckily we still have a small proportion of the media who are (at the moment) able to point out the blatant corruption of power!
 
The goal was to avoid a grade spike by being over generous. It assumes that the pool of pupils is roughly as bright as the previous pool of pupils. Therefore rank them and allocate according to the ranking based on historic grades. Seems fine. But at an individual level your grades up or down are based on other people's performance and that needs adjustment.
 
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