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People will sneer at Farage, as they always do. But his political antennae are among the best in politics. There is a gap in the political marketplace for (what polls
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What does this mean?POLITICSPerilous moment for Johnson. Tory benches are bleak for him, angry over the u-turn, the communication the lot.The autumn lockdown is imbued with politics in a way
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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
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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
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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
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Huge anxiety in non-Russell Group unis about financial implications of a) CAG reversion and b) lifting of the cap (assuming both happen which seems likely). Suddenly they may potentially be
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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
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What's going in universities?Have spent the day talking to vice-chancellors, admissions officers and the likePicture painted is one of confusion, some chaos and total uncertainty about the immediate futureEspecially on
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My inbox continues to swell with awful stories of able, disadvantaged kids who have lost places at prestigious universities after being inexplicably downgraded. For instance, Joanna, who had a place
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Oxbridge have even more questions to answer about why they’re beholden to what the algorithm says, because of how they recruit. Candidates take their own in-house tests b) are interviewed
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Looking through @ONS data on European deaths, it is v clear how poor the performance in England (and to a slightly lesser extent across GB) really is. Note the excess
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Latest US GDP data shows biggest quarterly contraction since the war (annualised rate of 32.9%). In the week ending 18th July, seventeen million were collecting unemployment benefits. It is perhaps
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