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- Tue 08 Sep, 2020 10:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 8th September 2020
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6598
Re: Tuesday 8th September 2020
A second senior law officer - the director general of the attorney general's office - has resigned today. The government claim it was part of a planned restructuring.
- Sun 30 Aug, 2020 9:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 29th/30th/31st August 2020
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12050
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 29th/30th/31st August 2020
So Labour have pulled polling back to where it was in Spring 2019. Although saying that is a bit like mentioning the 2017 election result, it's strictly not allowed.
- Tue 25 Aug, 2020 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 25th August 2020
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7430
Re: Tuesday 25th August 2020
And the country's "strictest headteacher" has completely lost it over the masks issue... Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy · 56m They will be pulling at each other’s masks, repositioning their own masks constantly, bullying each other over choice of mask etc. Add that to rise in chatter ...
- Thu 20 Aug, 2020 8:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20th August 2020
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4680
Re: Thursday 20th August 2020
On BTECs - the thing that doesn't really make sense to me about these - or does make sense and is just another sign of gross ignorance and incompetence on the part of the government - is that you have to do an awful lot of admin before you are cleared to even teach a BTEC course, producing a very ve...
- Sun 16 Aug, 2020 9:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
- Replies: 73
- Views: 17457
Re: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
In other news... Richard Adams @RichardA Wow - Ofqual has just REMOVED its new appeals policy and put out this statement: “Earlier today we published information about mock exam results in appeals. This policy is being reviewed by the Ofqual Board and further information will be published in due co...
- Sat 15 Aug, 2020 10:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
- Replies: 73
- Views: 17457
Re: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
Interestingly (that's 'interestingly' on the usual terms that you wouldn't be here reading it if it wasn't) our post 16 BTEC students have done well out of this - the courses changed a few years ago to make them much more focussed on exams, with required passes and access to top grades requiring goo...
- Sat 15 Aug, 2020 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
- Replies: 73
- Views: 17457
Re: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
I was being a bit flippant about further maths but only a bit - I may be wrong but my recollection is that it has a higher highest grade pass rate than any other subject. One of my PGCE tutors said that when the GCSE English system was briefly 100% coursework, and one of the pieces was a piece of cr...
- Sat 15 Aug, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
- Replies: 73
- Views: 17457
Re: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August 2020
Phil Bird @PhilBird19 Pupils taking A level maths and further maths illustrate the flaws perfectly. Predicted maths grades were automatically marked down, but their predicted further maths grades stood, because less students took further maths, and there wasn’t enough of a cohort for standardisatio...
- Fri 14 Aug, 2020 10:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 14th August 2020
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6179
Re: Friday 14th August 2020
Do the maths: why England's A-level grading system is unfair Long quote to make sense of it. TLDR? The system forced marks down but not up. It wouldn’t be out of place in a maths A-level: suppose a class of 27 pupils is predicted to achieve 2.3% A* grades and 2.3% U grades; how many pupils should b...
- Thu 13 Aug, 2020 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th August 2020
- Replies: 74
- Views: 14842
Re: Thursday 13th August 2020
Not sure where we are in the appeals and alternate plans, denials, re-plans and so on but there are some interesting things that the government chose to ignore completely when they suggested that students could formally be entitled to use their mock mark as an alternative grade.. There's no such thi...
- Fri 07 Aug, 2020 8:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 7th August 2020
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4113
Re: Friday 7th August 2020
Was looking back to try to find our first mention of all of these goings-on - I might have missed a link out to a story but so far as I can see... January 31st, on leaving the EU... What happened on 31st January? It was the day of the obvious end point of dangerous contagion, with consequences we st...
- Thu 06 Aug, 2020 12:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th August 2020
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7957
Re: Wednesday 5th August 2020
There's definitely something to be said for making sure, if teachers have been over generous, that all pupils are marked down equally. The discrepancy does seem unfair. What happens next is more important, though. The onus is now on colleges to be flexible about grades for studying chosen courses s...
- Tue 04 Aug, 2020 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 4th August 2020
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6726
Re: Tuesday 4th August 2020
https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/what-will-return-school-during-covid-19-pandemic-look?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=coronavirus&fbclid=IwAR1HbUg-66jfNoAXj7lsz0Rp8wbn-LdDTl21NYQpr_5LmpaE6ec0abHJqcU ‘What will a return to school during the COVID-19 pandemic look l...
- Sun 02 Aug, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 1st August and Sunday, 2nd August 2020
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14981
Re: Saturday, 1st August and Sunday, 2nd August 2020
snip Instead schools are due to fully re-open with no preventative measures at all - no social distancing, no face masks and only theoretical hygiene in the absence of budgets for more soap and sinks. All we have are "bubbles" of 100+ pupils which will be sent home once coronavirus has al...
- Sat 01 Aug, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 1st August and Sunday, 2nd August 2020
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14981
Re: Saturday, 1st August and Sunday, 2nd August 2020
Good piece by Andy Becket which will resonate here, I know, especially in 'the library' (or 'the other library') Why Boris Johnson's Tories fell for a tiny sect of libertarian provocateurs So much seems unusual about this Conservative government: its constant disruptiveness; its preference for rheto...
- Sat 01 Aug, 2020 12:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st July 2020
- Replies: 66
- Views: 15614
Re: Friday 31st July 2020
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- Fri 31 Jul, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st July 2020
- Replies: 66
- Views: 15614
Re: Friday 31st July 2020
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- Wed 29 Jul, 2020 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th July 2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7186
Re: Wednesday 29th July 2020
Been up visiting the parents and camping in the Scottish borders. This was last night... https://i.postimg.cc/K88rHcrx/IMG-20200728-213005.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bNJZXZMC/IMG-20200728-214044.jpg A place called Hermitage Castle which was first founded by William de Soulis who was alleged to be a d...
- Fri 24 Jul, 2020 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th July 2020
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5058
Re: Friday 24th July 2020
Ha! I clearly wasn't paying attention.RogerOThornhill wrote:I did wonder why Thursday was higher up the list than Friday - I blame the mods...
- Fri 24 Jul, 2020 11:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd July 2020
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6665
Re: Thursday 23rd July 2020
Just to lower the tone towards the unnecessary and irrelevant here is my latest high score on the US election simulation thing. (Yes yes, this isn't a game. Honest.)
- Wed 22 Jul, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22 July 2020
- Replies: 44
- Views: 11389
Re: Wednesday 22 July 2020
What Russia report?
I know it's just coincidence but still...
I know it's just coincidence but still...
- Tue 21 Jul, 2020 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21st July 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8069
Re: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Morning all. Bet School Business Leaders are loving this one... EDSK @EDSKthinktank Teachers are to receive a 3.1% pay rise following their “vital contribution” during the coronavirus outbreak. However the funding for the pay rise is expected to have to come from within schools’ existing budgets. (...
- Sat 18 Jul, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July 2020
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10302
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July 2020
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- Sat 18 Jul, 2020 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July 2020
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10302
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July 2020
In the US, the federal government are sending unmarked, unnatributable, armed units into American cities, against the protests of mayors and governors, to arrest people without warrant or explanation and take them away. Am I missing something here? Where are the militia? Where are the states' rights...
- Fri 17 Jul, 2020 12:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th July 2020
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6947
Re: Thursday 16th July 2020
English universities must prove 'commitment' to free speech for bailouts Universities in England needing bailouts to survive the impact of Covid-19 will have to “demonstrate their commitment” to free speech as well as closing courses with low graduate pay, Gavin Williamson has announced. I look for...
- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 10:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
Instagram link rather than YouTube postable video - Grace Petrie covering Dire Straits' 'Romeo and Juliet'
- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
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- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
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- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
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- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
We also have the prospect of schools going back in September without face masks or social distancing. Extreme caution for some, very little for others. Some say any measures we take are worthwhile, but that's not much comfort to teachers & parents who are being asked to take more risks. Did I s...
- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
I am not making that argument but the data on asymptomatic people is even weaker than those for symptomatic i a playing devil's advocate here just to be clear and I have no problems wearing a mask but I think we need to be also very open with the fact that the 'science' is not at all conclusive, th...
- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
Well tbf one argument in favour of masks is that their widespread use might make some concerned people more willing to go out of their homes. what if it also increases symptomatic people to leave their houses because it is safe to do so if you are wearing a mask? The problem with this argument is t...
- Tue 14 Jul, 2020 11:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2020
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16329
Re: Tuesday 14th July 2020
The report actually seems to exhort better preparation and maintenance of good behaviours as well as better data collection and testing regimes. None of which could really be argued with. And none of which will happen here. I'm aware of about a dozen deaths from Covid connected with school. I stron...
- Sat 11 Jul, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July 2020
- Replies: 72
- Views: 18119
Re: Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July 2020
Also *fanfare* my older daughter has got a First in Music - she got her lowest mark for the whole course on her final piece,done at home away from the normality of university work,and missed a starred first by a few marks.
- Sat 11 Jul, 2020 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July 2020
- Replies: 72
- Views: 18119
Re: Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July 2020
We saw a friend yesterday who said yes, her daughter (same age as our oldest) is now moving between home and her boyfriend's house and is going out with friends in the evening, and her older boy is out with friends every night, 50-100 16-18 year olds meeting up together. There are lots of apparently...
- Fri 10 Jul, 2020 2:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 10th July 2020
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8236
Re: Friday 10th July 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/09/chris-grayling-expected-chair-isc-intelligence-security-committee https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1281570356919185409" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Johnson's attempt to appoint Grayling "has been disrupted by m...
- Wed 08 Jul, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th July 2020
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9385
Re: Wednesday 8th July 2020
Liz Truss warns Boris Johnson over Brexit border plans An extraordinary cabinet row has erupted over Brexit with Liz Truss warning that Boris Johnson’s border plans risk smuggling, damage to the UK’s international reputation and could face a legal challenge from the World Trade Organization. If onl...
- Mon 06 Jul, 2020 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 6th July 2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7144
Re: Monday 6th July 2020
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- Mon 06 Jul, 2020 10:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 6th July 2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7144
Re: Monday 6th July 2020
From yesterday Avoiding unnecessary expenditure requires vigilance. It means investigating a very small leak in the roof and taking the necessary steps to fix or replace it straight away. Financial prudence is not watching and waiting until the small leak is a torrent and the roof is close to immine...
- Mon 06 Jul, 2020 10:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 6th July 2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7144
Re: Monday 6th July 2020
Meanwhile In all honesty, I’d like the Gov’s new shock and awe Brexit business readiness campaign to start in the following way: “To all businesses, big and small, As of 1 Jan 2021, you will bear the full responsibility for your goods moving across the new border the UK erected with its main trading...
- Thu 02 Jul, 2020 2:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2020
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9470
Re: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Yes, yes...he really does say what you think he said at the start. https://twitter.com/gamray/status/1278641323780833281" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I would ask anyone to make sure they've watched that video before they consider this comment, but it's nice to know that ...
- Wed 01 Jul, 2020 12:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st July 2020
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9300
Re: Wednesday 1st July 2020
270towin have their 2020 electoral college simulator up and running already. I am treating this as a meaningless game - really - and have no expectations at all about November, and won't have any until January, but still this was fun, first time I ran the simulation. Screen Shot 2020-07-01 at 12.54...
- Wed 01 Jul, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st July 2020
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9300
Re: Wednesday 1st July 2020
In other news I see that Policy Exchange have weighed in on the "removing statues is erasing history" line by setting up a commission. I follow a great number of historians on that Twitter and there was a good deal of mirth and chortling going on yesterday. This is good. https://twitter.c...
- Tue 30 Jun, 2020 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10260
Re: Tuesday 30th June 2020
GCSE and A-level exams in all subjects to be available in autumn GCSE and A-level pupils in England who are unhappy with their predicted grades this summer will be able to sit exams in all subjects in the autumn to try to improve their mark, the exams regulator has confirmed. How? Y11 and Y13 stude...
- Tue 30 Jun, 2020 10:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th June 2020
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10260
Re: Tuesday 30th June 2020
Exclusive: What Schools Will Be Told To Do In September So All Pupils Can Return This is causing quite a bit of chatter on social media today. Vast majority negative. This particular bit prompted a very caustic response from one poster: A new focus on tackling “persistently disruptive” pupils becau...
- Mon 29 Jun, 2020 10:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 29th June 2020
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16239
Re: Monday 29th June 2020
We're not likely to see anything critical from the media either. Just like their reporting of the £1bn over 10 years for schools, it's just reported in the govt's words with no context, as if it was a lot of money. I was actually taken aback by the distance between the rhetoric and the facts. I cou...
- Mon 29 Jun, 2020 12:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2020
- Replies: 76
- Views: 19961
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2020
I don't know about anyone else but I have a bad feeling about all this. I wore a face covering in Tesco today because I thought it was going to be mayhem and when I got in any notion of social distancing was gone completely. At least you can mutter and swear at idiots with plausible deniability if ...
- Mon 29 Jun, 2020 12:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2020
- Replies: 76
- Views: 19961
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2020
On the mesmerising power of big numbers - Johnson announces investmentin education with £1billion over ten years to build and rebuild schools. My brother's CofE school is still waiting for Gove's bibles. Which Gove made a big deal over, even though the Everyman Library had given every school in the...
- Sun 28 Jun, 2020 11:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2020
- Replies: 76
- Views: 19961
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2020
On the mesmerising power of big numbers - Johnson announces investmentin education with £1billion over ten years to build and rebuild schools.
Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme invested about £47billion over about fifteen yeas.
Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme invested about £47billion over about fifteen yeas.
- Sat 27 Jun, 2020 12:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th June 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8373
Re: Friday 26th June 2020
If you have the flu you'd have a temperature, even if you don't always have a temperature with coronavirus. What I'm basically saying is that someone sneezing and coughing with a temperature should be isolating at home anyway, regardless what they're ill with, so hopefully it's a moot (though certa...