Notices

General Chat General discussion. Want to chat about anything not covered in another forum - This is the place!

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Old 17-08-2020, 09:25 PM #551
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default


Last edited by arista; 17-08-2020 at 11:30 PM.
arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 09:29 PM #552
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default


Last edited by arista; 17-08-2020 at 11:32 PM.
arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 09:35 PM #553
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:33 PM #554
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:33 PM #555
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:34 PM #556
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:35 PM #557
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:35 PM #558
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:36 PM #559
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 17-08-2020, 11:37 PM #560
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 19-08-2020, 12:53 AM #561
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 19-08-2020, 12:55 AM #562
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 19-08-2020, 01:01 AM #563
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 19-08-2020, 07:10 PM #564
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

BTec grades pulled on eve of publication

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53843148
arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 20-08-2020, 03:58 PM #565
Ammi's Avatar
Ammi Ammi is offline
Quand il pleut, il pleut
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 63,155


Ammi Ammi is offline
Quand il pleut, il pleut
Ammi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 63,155


Default

Firm linked to Gove and Cummings hired to work with Ofqual on A-levels...


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, the Guardian can reveal.

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.

The firm is understood to have been initially contracted to assist Ofqual with communicating its A-level and GSCE results plan to help secure public confidence in the strategy.

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.”

Wolf, a former adviser to Gove when he was shadow education secretary, is one of several staff from Public First who are understood to have worked with Ofqual on the approach to the awarding of A-level, BTec and GCSE grades for students, who were unable to take their exams due to the Covid-19 school closures.

A Cabinet Office spokesperson told the Guardian that Gove had not been involved in Ofqual’s appointment of Public First. They said: “The Cabinet Office had no involvement in the contract and did not discuss it with Ofqual.”

The algorithm used by Ofqual downgraded 40% of the A-level grades assessed by teachers under the process set after the exams were cancelled, leading to a storm of protest from students, parents, school leaders and teachers, that culminated in a complete government U-turn on Monday and the system being scrapped.

...full article...

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/firm-linke...050012669.html
Ammi is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 20-08-2020, 11:50 PM #566
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 20-08-2020, 11:51 PM #567
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 25-08-2020, 03:32 PM #568
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

[Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier quits
after A-levels chaos to allow 'new leadership'


Sally Collier has decided that
the "next stage of the awarding process
would be better overseen by new leadership", the
body said in a statement on Tuesday.]

https://news.sky.com/story/ofqual-ch...rship-12056438
arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 25-08-2020, 11:29 PM #569
arista's Avatar
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
arista arista is offline
Senior Member
arista's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 165,061
Default

arista is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 10-08-2021, 07:32 AM #570
Ammi's Avatar
Ammi Ammi is offline
Quand il pleut, il pleut
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 63,155


Ammi Ammi is offline
Quand il pleut, il pleut
Ammi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 63,155


Default

…do we have any members having A Level results today…?…good luck to any who are…….you’ll be amazing, you always are…it’s a TiBB thing and how we raise you….


Ammi is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 10-08-2021, 09:22 AM #571
Livia's Avatar
Livia Livia is offline
שטח זה להשכרה
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Brasov, Transylvania
Posts: 31,095


Livia Livia is offline
שטח זה להשכרה
Livia's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Brasov, Transylvania
Posts: 31,095


Default

I predict another record-breaking year, just like last year... and the year before... and the year before that ad infititum.
Livia is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Old 10-08-2021, 09:37 AM #572
michael21 michael21 is offline
User banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: In my big house
Posts: 13,901


michael21 michael21 is offline
User banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: In my big house
Posts: 13,901


Default

Normally on a Thursday why it Tuesday this time
michael21 is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
Reply

Bookmark/share this topic

Tags
alevel, discussion, thread

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 02:41 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
 

About Us ThisisBigBrother.com

"Big Brother and UK Television Forum. Est. 2001"

 

© 2023
no new posts