Where @Steven_Swinford interviews @GavinWilliamson who admits the exams algorithm creates individual injustices...It is both Orwellian and un-Tory: faceless Govt algorithm creates individual injustices in the name of central statistical conformity..mad/1

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gavin-williamson-interview-in-scotland-there-were-no-checks-it-degrades-every-single-exam-result-gwrhx8ztx
So even if there are capacity issues with individual universities having more successful applicants than places because of inflated grades; surely it’s for Unis to address (good @lewis_goodall thread here)...but it’s the politics of this that’s insane/2

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1294390523369852928?s=21 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1294390523369852928
All you can say is that the appeals process better be pretty swift and Rolls Royce to iron out these injustices, because otherwise the system is essentially one of collective punishment for “outliers” - aren’t Tories supposed to be about individuals rising above? /3
We all know cases (at least those of us who send our kids to state schools and sixth form colleges do!) of obvious injustice meted out by an algorithm that sees bright “outlier” kids pay for the academic ‘sins’ of their forebears - it’s so manifestly unfair/4
How this political man trap wasn’t spotted 100 miles away beggars belief - be interesting to see how MPs inboxes fill up with this one, as the did with Dom’s Barnard Castle eye test. Injustice/unfairness is a great animator of anger. /5
Mr Williamson @GavinWilliamson says there will be “No U-turn, no change”, so presume he’s got that from The Centre, as perhaps we should call it henceforth, but you can see how the chorus of “outliers” (dismissive word that) will grow and grow. ENDS
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