A-level exams row: PM has 'confidence' in Gavin Williamson and Ofqual
Conservative former education secretary Lord Baker, who drew up the GCSE exam system in the late 1980s, said the algorithm was"flawed" and called for results day this Thursday to be postponed.
"The A-level results have produced hundreds of thousands of unfair and barely explicable downgrades," he said. "They have helped smaller private schools but hit the brighter students in a poorly performing state school. It is not surprising that various parties are considering legal actions."Asked to repeat those words again on Monday, his spokesman declined to."The government must now allow young people to use the grades their teachers predicted at both A-level and GCSE," shadow education secretary Kate Green said.
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