#Ofqual

Schools Week

SchoolsWeek

Good morning. Ofqual interim chief regulator Dame Glenys Stacey will shortly give evidence to the education committee @CommonsEd, followed by schools minister Nick Gibb. Stay tuned for tweets #edselctte .@halfon4harlowMP

Chris Foley

HT_StMonicas

Thinking about school re-opening, a thread.1. March 8th is a ‘look to reopen’ date, not ‘it’s happening’. It is so helpful for school leaders to have some idea of timescales

JennyCameron🌈

JennyCameron

THIS explains a lot. But to understand, you need to know about BTEC marking. So... THREAD 1. BTECs are made up of individual units. Some are internally assessed. Some

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

NEW: More exams chaos. After the Ofqual ruling that BTECs will be treated the same way as A-levels Pearson (the body which administers Btec qualifications) has just emailed all schools

Ben P

benny_pea

A bit of insight for you before GCSE "results" are announced next week. It'll help you understand teachers' anger. 1/n It looks like next week's GCSEs are likely to be

Tamara Cohen

tamcohen

A u-turn would remedy terrible injustices for some pupils, but creates other problems. Ofqual said teacher grades at A-Levels this year "implausibly high" eg 13.9% A* grades (7.7% in 2019)

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

This is the Ofqual interim report explaining what it did.https://twitter.com/bsadigitalsoc/status/1294406940743925761 I said yesterday what I thought the issues were.https://twitter.com/georgeperetzqc/status/1294220687184474112 Looking at t

Tes

tes

It’s been another big day for educational news… here’s everything you need to know from today’s announcement (1/12) Let’s start with @ofqual: the chief regulator said that different qualifications would

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

There's a small but significant number of students who have not been helped at all by the govt u-turn.They've neither been upgraded, or downgraded. Because they have no grade and

Scarlett Westbrook 🌎

ScarlettOWest

recently, there has been a resurgence in the #cancelexams ‘movement’ - promoting the cancellation of exams in favour of CAG (with no given alterations to the CAG that were provided

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Have received scores of messages from downgraded students. Here are a few. Firstly, David. He goes to an FE college in Gateshead. He's the first in his family to go

Paul Bernal

PaulbernalUK

A quick thread on fairness in relation to the A Level results. Fairness sounds simple and straightforward, but it really isn’t. Who do the results have to be fair for,

Jonathan Mountstevens

MrMountstevens

Actually reading through the Ofqual/DfE consultation rather than what has been said about it by others. It's not making me feel any better. But, but, but...! This is such an

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Make no mistake, this transfers the chaos from Ofqual (who had to come up with a new appeals process and deal with 100000s of cases) and schools (who had to

John Blake

johndavidblake

This is a v unfortunate consequence of these past few days. Teachers are trusted, all the time, by student, parents & even govt. But assessment like A-levels & GCSEs requires

Sam Freedman

Samfr

There are many many problems with the Ofqual consultation on 2021 exams (don't blame them - they've been asked to do something impossible). But the fundamental conceptual problem is summed

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