... it's that level in the swamp hierarchy - which advises the civil servants - who have real experience of our educational system. They must have known this was a car crash waiting to happen and can sit there, 'not me Gov't, I'm only an adviser ...
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... it's that level in the swamp hierarchy - which advises the civil servants - who have real experience of our educational system. They must have known this was a car crash waiting to happen and can sit there, 'not me Gov't, I'm only an adviser ...
You have given some truly dumb responses over the years, Black Bess, but you are plumbing new depths here. However, you did get it right with your opening salvo - 'the government carries the can'.
Amongst educationists there are plenty of lateral thinkers, but when those who are your 'lord and master' make their demands in such singular and linear terms, what can you do? Most of the present government went through a public school system that opts for 'cramming' and sees learning as moving from A to B whereas it is better to conceive of it as a concentric model.
The present minister for education attended one of Scarborough's weakest comprehensives at that time and didn't cover himself in glory when he attended Bradford. In other words, there was no intellectual rigour during those years. Sometimes that doesn't matter because people mature later in life, but I think this s h i t storm has found Gavin out.
To answer the original question:
Yes our son got a c in physics (His favourite subject) when his predicted grade was a B. Which means he cant do the astrophysics course he wanted to do.
He was doing Maths, Physics, and a double IT
In the end he decided to drop the maths because the workload was just too much. In the months after he did that his physics grades improved dramatically so it does seem from our point of view as though there is something wrong here. We did all this in consultation with the school to give him the best chance of doing what he wanted to do. In retrospect it would have been better for him to continue with maths because he was consistently c level across his whole a level time with both maths and physics. Feels a bit shafted now.
So now he's going to do software engineering. Which is very depressing from my point of view. I've worked as a software developer on and off for most of my working life so i'll still be useful. I would have been happier if he'd gone and done astrophysics and left me cheerfully oblivious. So i feel a bit shafted too!
Sorry to hear that CaptainBalrog. I hope your son appeals and gets an upgrade.
I found out since I posted this that one of my cousin's kids got marked down too. He's still got his university place thankfully, but it's a shame to see so many young people so disappointed. And from all the info that's coming out it seems to only be young people who go to non-fee-paying schools who are experiencing this. Which points to an unfair algorithm in the first place.
Putting in an ‘algorithm’ that bumps up private school’s kid’s grades while downgrading those from a more modest background is pretty much peak Tory.
You get what you voted for folks.
He won’t be able to Swale.
Look, at the end of the day there is an appeals process and also the opportunity to sit exams to achieve actual results. Let’s be honest, University will be **** this year. Freshers week will be a damp squib. So but put back a year isn’t the end of the world.
The only alternative is to give everyone the grades they think they deserve.