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Portrait of the week: A-level chaos, quarantine confusion and revolution

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

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The government seemed to be taken strangely unaware by the frenzy of recrimination that came its way when results were announced from a system put in place as a substitute for A-levels, cancelled in March. Schools had been told to present teachers’ assessments, to which Ofqual applied an algorithm supposed to iron out anomalies.

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