GCSE results may be delayed after A-Level fury as Boris Johnson is under a lot of pressure to postpone
Boris Johnson is being urged to delay GCSE resultsCredit: Getty Images - GettyAn algorithm devised by exams regulator Ofqual was used to determine A-level results, and the same system is set to be used to decideLord Baker, who introduced the GCSE system, argued that results should be pushed back two weeks from their scheduled announcement on Thursday.
He said the algorithm was flawed and had created "hundreds of thousands of unfair and barely explicable downgrades".Commons education committee chairman and Tory MP Robert Halfon said there may need to be a delay in releasing GCSE results. "Unless they have fair appeals and unless Ofqual make clear their model won't disadvantage unfairly, then perhaps this is one route they may need to consider," he said.It comes as some Ofqual board members reportedly want controversial algorithm results overturned and replaced with predicted grades,Sources said some members of the Ofqual board believe the algorithm has caused a "haemorrhaging" of public opinion on qualifications.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has the power to scrap the algorithm, but he has defended it and insisted there will be "no U-turn, no change".against poor grades - without giving a reason why. Fretting pupils wanting to challenge the grades handed out from a widely criticised algorithm were told the appeal policy is now "being reviewed".
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