In my opinion, the biggest lesson from this is that without examinations or other proper assessments, the education system is totally unmanageable. Estimated results are not an adequate substitute fo… (View Post)

Perhaps the government should award the teachers' grades for GCSEs but stick with the algorithm grades for A-levels. Appeals against GCSE grades could overload the system. However a big increase in A… (View Post)

There is no good way out of this now. The schools stayed open for key workers's children. They could have stayed open for examinations as well, possibly by hiring extra premises and retired teachers.… (View Post)

This result could mean that people can be vaccinated against COVID 19 using a coronavirus that causes the common cold. The common cold is not dangerous for most people, and presumably vaccine trials … (View Post)

It is possible that they have done human challenge trials, possibly on a large scale with hundreds or thousands of participants. If so, they could have a lot of data on the vaccine making it in a sen… (View Post)