And a lot of dedicated people will have their careers ruined or ended - if this pans out as badly as it looks.
With this government, most things do.
― the pinefox, Monday, 17 August 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
I don't have anything of use to add but this is looking like a disaster on almost every conceivable level.
Can someone explain the lifting of the cap in a little more detail?
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 August 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
75% of Britons - including 69% of Conservative voters - think the UK government have handled the situation regarding pupils’ exam results badly https://t.co/xzSZki0HOI pic.twitter.com/bBtnGsscHd— YouGov (@YouGov) August 17, 2020
Have to say I have no idea what's going on in the head of the tiny minority who think the government is handling this well, especially the 2% of Labour voters, which might as well be a rounding error.
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 August 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Universities are only allowed to recruit a certain number of English students - which, i think, is about 105% of the last year's intake. If they recruit more, they get fined heavily. This is partly to stop universities just taking everyone who'd want to go (as the government wants to control figures) and partly to share the students out across the system.
Using a completely made-up set of numbers, if Manchester had 10,000 English students in 2019, they can have 10,500 now. The problem comes if they send out 12,500 offers in the assumption that about 20% won't get their predicted grades. In a normal year, that group of 2000 would go to their second-choice university or into the clearing system. This year, everyone has their predicted grades. Manchester can't legally accept the 2000 but if they turn them away, the thing that everyone has been shouting about for the last week doesn't get fixed.
What the government can potentially do is say 'just go head and let them in, ignore the cap'. Manchester would get 2000 extra students, and the funds that go along with them, but the universities that those students would otherwise have gone to get nothing. A lot of those universities would be in a similar situation, where they've over-offered, and things might balance out a little, but you'd inevitably end up with a set of universities at the bottom that were few learners' first choice who ultimately end up screwed.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 17 August 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Cap officially lifted now.
Obvs the same people complaining about grades being downgraded are complaining about low-ranking universities facing financial ruin but idk how you square the circle. The government delaying everything by the best part of the week has made things worse but i have no idea what would have made them better.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
good keith shade
Jeremy Corbyn45m · This u-turn from the Government wouldn't have happened without the #Alevelprotests from so many young people, the important work of the teaching unions and everyone who spoke out.
My solidarity to all those who took a stand.
― ||||||||, Monday, 17 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
kieth shade, that's what they call him
― calzino, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
Lads Corbyn is going to ask us to vote Labour. Ye know that, right?
― caută tu singur (gyac), Monday, 17 August 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Already? I only just voted
― anvil, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
fluffed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-IQAdFU3w
― anvil, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Has Cronus been replaced with... a riding crop??
Photo du jour: Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson in his office at the Dept for Education today after announcing a change in the way A-Level grades will be awarded. By Stefan Rousseau/PA pic.twitter.com/yI3ICFEMBR— Stefan Rousseau (@StefanRousseau) August 17, 2020
― Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
i presume nobody thinks williamson is indispensable as they clearly think that creepy guy who works for gove is, wonder if they think keeping him on is worth it for the implicit "fuck u everyone!"
― plax (ico), Monday, 17 August 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Jenrick is still in position so yeah probably. Difference is that the public actually cares about this.
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
also firing jenrick might have signalled to potential donors that they weren't completely open to business for favours, not really sure what keeping williamson communicates aside from the obvious
― plax (ico), Monday, 17 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
― caută tu singur (gyac), Monday, 17 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Take a #chillPill
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 August 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England https://t.co/bVobVZmECe— The Guardian (@guardian) August 17, 2020
Disaster at Talk Talk, disaster as head of the track and trace system, put in charge of the successor to Public Health England.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 17 August 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
apparently the whip under the book in that gavin williamson pic ^^^ is some *very subtle* symbolic menace that he's got plenty of dirt from when he was chief whip and he ain't afraid to use it if he gets pumped.
― calzino, Monday, 17 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Obviously Harding is a totally incompetent crook but it's annoying that we now have to pretend that public health England isn't a sham organisation itself a symptom of mismanagement of the NHS
― plax (ico), Monday, 17 August 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
Between this and the exam stuff we've had a whole week of partisan support for rubbish institutions
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 August 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
Gavin Williamson saying on sky he shouldn’t resign essentially because he’s always been right and it’s anomalies that’s the problem, so everyone can stfu. It’s fascinating how much they dgaf and Williamson has that look of not even really understanding why he has to be questioned on tv.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 08:17 (three years ago) link
Would pleading the government to give this Department to Grayling be accelerationism?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
expecting someone with the dynamism of a rusty sack cart to hasten the demise of capitalism? The only practical insurgent application of Grayling would be to strap a bomb to him.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
Liverpool remains the best.
Social media attack tells 'Brylcreemed sh******e' Labour leader he and deputy Angela Rayner 'should be worried' https://t.co/yUgReSP4Bx— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) August 18, 2020
― caută tu singur (gyac), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
shitlorde?
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
shiteface imo
― imago, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
shtakhanovite
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
shitehole
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
Good on Sarah Morton obviously, but I've been struggling with that cryptic clue for a while now: shitehawk(e)? shiteheel(e)? Is this an esoteric Scouseism?
xp see ilx is already on the case
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
Sir Shittyarse having a bad day again
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
Cllr Morton wrote: "Watched the first 5 mins of ITV News and it wasn't a Tory that had me shouting at the TV, we know they are self interested, elitist sh***hawks. But Keir Starmer, the alleged leader of the opposition (Trading Standards should be having a word there) attempting to bask in the victory of a hard won U-turn by the thousands of students who took to the streets in the last few days to demand that the government treat them fairly."
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
she's wrong, it was a Tory that had her shouting at the TV
Shitehawke imo. Don’t understand the extra E but I’ll let it slide for such excellent scouseness.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
its canon
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91I-TnVLnqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
fuckin' hell, look at the height on matthew broderick's forehead
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
clearly the skull of a future double-murderer
i think the hawke is sat on the top of his head if you look closely
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
ladyshitehawke one of my fave bands
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
I've not been this impressed with a Labour Councillor since I saw one remove a dead rat that was lying in the middle of a ginnel, with her bare hands!
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
I've read a lot of good commentary on the lines of: no matter the crimes of Blairism, being soft to non-existent in opposition wasn't one of them.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link
so scotland’s schools have been open for a week, let’s check in and see how that’s going
Four more pupils at separate schools have tested positive for Covid-19.Two of the cases are in Perth and Kinross, one in Renfrewshire and one in North Lanarkshire.One pupil from Newhill Primary in Blairgowrie and another from Oakbank Primary in Perth are now self-isolating at home. The third attends Todholm primary in Paisley.A fourth pupil, who attends St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge, has also tested positive.Three other pupils from St Ambrose High had already tested positive, along with one from St Andrew's High in Coatbridge and one from Caldervale High in Airdrie. There are a further three linked cases, who are not staff or pupils, and 14 cases in north-east Glasgow.
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
That doesn’t on its own tell you opening schools was bad. Is four kids getting it in a week above what it was before they opened?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
as I understand it none so far are suspected of getting the virus *in* school
this hasn't stopped shitty scare mongering headlines about outbreaks being "linked to schools"
― オニモ (onimo), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Do we know what the procedures are if a pupil gets covid and has gone to school?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
All of this shit is in the hands of Gavin Williamson so good luck England.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools
This would have been helpful for virtually the entire world and unless they've started collecting some serious data since it appears that Sweden bungled it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
Be an um, interesting experiment if the UK didn't do this.
Germany to extend coronavirus furlough to 24 months https://t.co/pVmoKAMTvH— Kam Sandhu (@Kayayemela) August 18, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:58 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Teachers may choose to wear masks but are not required to unless they are in sustained close contact with pupils (less than 2m for more than 15 mins iirc)
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:00 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Isolation and contact tracing, same as anyone else. Schools will remain open if track and trace is judged to have contained any outbreak.
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
Is it up to the council to make the decision on whether the school has contained it?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link