This Government

I spent my life in education, 40 years with 30 of them as a Headteacher in 4 different schools and I’m still shocked at the utter incompetence of this lot. My first year as HT was when the National Curriculum came in so I spent my life organising assessment, moderating to ensure the children in your care were given the best chance. Were I or any of my HT colleagues to have acted as ineptly as this minister we would have been sacked by our boards of governors 
Of course you moderate the actual work/marking against the criteria of the exam boards. Since it was announced in March they would have known the likely problems that needed overcoming. Yet he comes on TV or the radio churning out meaningless words about the robustness of his systems, does a U turn and now apologises. 
Of course he was making it up, no attention to detail, leaving it to others. But unfortunately he epitomise this government, little detail behind the headlines and no backbone when it goes wrong. If you had made this up no one would have believed it but it is the reality of this government.

So how are they going to handle the fact that University places have been taken by those that under the correct system wouldn't have got in and therefore those that did, can't?

Again? Is there anything this lot don't base that on?

"It is a kind of genius, really. You appoint the most useless cabinet that has ever been assembled, and one by one you purge all of the departments of their top administrators as they are conned into carrying the can for the staggering fiascos that, entirely coincidentally, have only happened once the Cabinet of None of The Talents showed up."

"On they all go, the Carnival of the Clueless, burning down all before them. From sixth form colleges to care homes, cradle quite literally to the grave, they’re coming for you.

When they find you and strip away either your life chances or your life itself, the important thing to remember is that it will always all be somebody else’s fault."

Indeed.

flip.it/pdiBwi

Who created the algorithm?

Anyone seen the public health England story?

The gov are going to replace it, in the middle of a pandemic.

Apparently the person in charge of the process is a woman who oversaw the Talk Talk data breach scandal, her hubby is part of a think tank that wants to privatise the NHS.

I mean on there current run of form does anyone trust them to not f*ck it up?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53813480

Dido Harding....ahemmm

BJ has been largely able to avoid blame by association on many of the issues since March. The housing scandal overseen by Jenrick didn’t receive the publicity it could have received in normal times, The Cummings issue he was able to show himself as a loyal friend and colleague and once he’d weathered the week in which it happened he was ok. None of those posed too many public problems for him. The BLM protests he was able to side himself with the protesters so it was never aimed at him.
This A Level debacle isn’t going to go away. Too many young people have had their chance to go to their first choice University ruined. The universities will find it hard to go against offers made to students after the initial results meaning that those who’ve results have been up graded may not get the places they earned. The damage has been done. UCAS, the universities, schools, 18-19 year olds whose careers are now effectively put on hold for a year or even more or even irrevocably damaged will not forgive him and neither should they. He had been warned about this and as SOS for Education he should know the consequences without being told. To have stuck his head in the sand will not cut it.
BJ will now be facing the ire and anger of thousands of young people and he will not avoid that in the same way he’s been able to avoid the other bad stuff. This is going to play out on the front pages of the press, TV headlines and as we’ve learnt over the past 2/3 years young people nowadays are able to articulate their concerns, can distill their arguments into very effective protests. BJ needs to grasp the situation and deal with it, but evidence has shown (unless it’s anything to do with Brexit) that he is unlikely to do that. Is he even aware of what’s happening?

Whether you agree with the uni fees or not it was a matter of policy / politics and generally had many people agreeing with it, students will earn more in time so they should pay for it. Again you could make a case for it.

This debacle is different it’s not political, not policy just utter incompetence which will affect young people’s future. There is no justification nor argument for it, it portrays the government as lazy (they never sorted it out), unprepared (despite being an accident waiting to happen the SOS did nothing to offset the difficulties in the months prior), panic-stricken (changing stuff at late notice, 10.30pm!!, on the day before). Listening and watching Williamson I wouldn’t put him in charge of giving out the exercise books in a classroom, it would turn into chaos.