Although not affected by this since our children are too old, I sympathise with those contributors whose children are in the current predicament. There must be a fair number of contributors who are in this situation. The Government’s spin about comparison to past years’ mock and actual results, and hogwash regarding numbers of children from ‘deprived backgounds’ entering university is merely adding insult to injury.
There has always been a suspicion that employres will view this years results sceptically, with the government’s present action reinforcing that probability. There is little that can be done about that, however there is one scenario which has the government and the univesities literally quaking in their boots.
Instead of following the government’s pushed advice to resit in the Autumn, elect to resit next Summer instead, every one of those affected has the right to demand a full year’s tuition. The government knows full well that it cannot possibly cope with running two year-two sixth forms concurrently. Presently it does not have the teachers nor the buildings to enable this to happen, let alone meet with the cost of providing the facilities within budget. It will also have to meet criticism over comparison with private school class sizes being under the spotlight even more so will have to be shown to have met bettered current sizes. The prospect of running two classes with the differing level of teaching required for those revisiting some content already covered for one group and 1st time for another presents them with another problem. Resit candidates are likely to obtain a proportionately higher percnetage of the top grades leaving a severe problem about 1st time around candidates with the same grades access to already full universities. We have exactly the same situation looming with this year’s GCSE candidates.
The Universities will whinge about the loss of revenue from undersubscribed courses this coming year and oversubscribed next year and will demand finacial assistance.
Stick it to 'em kids.
The public school exam results weren’t marked down…
Is there anything else this lot can do to prove that they aren’t for ordinary people?
Darkside:
The public school exam results weren’t marked down…
Is there anything else this lot can do to prove that they aren’t for ordinary people?
Is there anything else the working class can do to show that they are social climbing champagne socialist social climbers in the Blair mould.
It was 11 + in my day from that point on your life was unfairly mapped out.
Not because we gave a zb about white collar waste of space workers being seperated out from that point.
But because of the second class wages of those who actually produced the goods in the economy.
Proud to say that I did my English and Geography CSE’s because I had nothing better to do on the days and could actually understand the questions to at least provide an answer getting me a grade 3 in both from memory.
But walked out laughing at the unfathomable questions on all the others saying leave means leave and I’d ‘left’ school by choice at Easter.Having already been stitched up by the increase in the school leaving age to 16 when I should have been out of it the year previously.
While plenty of truancy meant I’d only done around 50% of that time anyway and a lot of the other 50% was spent gazing out the window watching the International running trucks going to Dover along the Kingston By Pass to Tolworth heading for Reigate and thinking what if and if only. 
I’ll never forget the bus trip home on that warm day in 1975 never to go back to that borstal like zb hole again as being one of the best and most happy days of my life.
Darkside:
The public school exam results weren’t marked down…
Is there anything else this lot can do to prove that they aren’t for ordinary people?
Were Public school borders all sent home at the start of the lockdown?
Did any Public School pupils actually sit their exams as per usual?
Under the current exam system, there always have to be a certain number of losers.
If the exam is then not held, then the arguments are abound that “Hey not ME for being a loser!” when of course the entire logic has already been reversed.
SOMEONE has to “lose” or else if every pupil “passes” on these “estimated results” notion, then we’ll instead see “Qualifications Inflation” which last happened under Thatcher during the period 1980-1984 in particular.
In 1978 - leaving school with 7 O level passes including Maths and English Language - pretty much guaranteed a school leaver a job straight out of school…
Come 1982 though when I left school with exactly that number of O level passes - I was unable to get a job for six long years where I earned the same amount as the bod working next to me doing the same job.
“My entire school life was inflated away” - by this final-winding down of trade and industry, as we moved towards the Service Economy that Britain eventually became from the Mid-80’s.
I hated Thatcher with a passion throughout this time of course, and my entire foundation of being “Left Wing on Finance” comes from the impoverishment that the then Tories put me through.
…Today this Lockdown now looks to be taking us in yet another direction where we can “do that all over again”.
NOT impressed! 
