Private schools, colleges and universities told Gavin Williamson and Ofqual that system would punish poorest students
Ministers and Ofqual ignored multiple warnings that the exam regulator's algorithm for grading A-levels and GCSEs was heading for catastrophe, according to examiners, advisers, academics, former civil servants and MPs.
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