The A-level results injustice shows why algorithms are never neutral
Statistical models reflect racial, gender and class inequalities and replicate them as data patterns.
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A majority of UK voters think that teachers alone should set this year’s exam results
Across every UK nation and region, a majority believe that grades should be set by assessment, not moderation.
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Top A-level grades soar at private schools as sixth form colleges lose out
The number of grades at A and above rose by 4.7 points in private schools but by just 0.3 points…
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Leader: The education debacle
By September most children in the UK will have been absent from school for six months, which has magnified educational…
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Gavin Williamson is a bystander in England’s exams row – but not for the reason you think
All four governments’ original sin is seeing the problem as one that secondary schools and the exams watchdog can solve.
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Why we fear the reopening of schools will create a second wave of Covid-19 infections
My hunch is that coronavirus will prove to be just like other respiratory viruses – eminently transmissible by the young.
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Will Scotland’s exams U-turn force Boris Johnson’s government to follow?
The Conservative administration has vowed not to abandon results moderation – but it may end up having to.
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For this year’s school leavers, a return to “normal” means dashed hopes and a loss of control
Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon have found themselves in the same predicament over exam results.
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