My point in the case of "U"s is that even if the teacher rankings weren't garbage, the algorithm would still fail. Because in normal times "U"s or unexpected poor individual … (View Post)

Coronavirus: every day we get new headlines about how we have “record cases” as the “virus continues to grow”, as if this is somehow unexpected. It’s a PANDEMIC! You know what happens with pandemics?… (View Post)

One thing that seems really ridiculous is the situation with some pupils seemingly being randomly assigned "U"s or similar. Among all but the most useless or disinterested students I imagin… (View Post)

Not really a solution to that since Williamson’s “triple lock” and promise was made on the hoof in completely ignorance of what Mock exams are, whether everyone had done them(they hadn’t) and the com… (View Post)

Maybe they just have pretty good public administration and data collection agencies and are actually doing a lot of testing and counting of cases. (View Post)