Long time since I was in involved, but multiple ways to speed up - pay more to attract markers, faster couriers/scanners etc. Blocker is long-running criticism of cost (& repeated Ofqual threat to regulate prices). It’s actually pretty low-cost given its scale, complexity and low tolerance of error.
Greg Watson
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Edtech, education, music - sometimes all at the same time. Business leader, coach, advisor, trustee - any of those in pursuit of progress #edsky
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Philanthropy has to be part of the solution but what I’m learning as I try to do a modest bit of it is that it’s hard to learn how to do it effectively. It’s no doubt easier for those whose families have done it for generations. How about a College of Philanthropy to teach the newbies?
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You’ve always been a “glass quarter full” type
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Or if you’re the Beckhams, conceive your next child in Aachen
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About 20%. It’s doable - well over a decade since some GCSEs were first assessed online. Prob is too many cooks - DfE (wanting credit but not accountability), Ofqual (wanting control but lacking competence) and ABs (wanting operationally/financially viable in the face of overengineering by others).
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Hard to see how sharpening accountability helps, given hospitals leaders are so dependent on things they don’t control - funding (govt), process (CQC/NICE), referral rates (GPs)
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Finally listened to this. Had always admired (if not always agreed with) NG but he sounds surprisingly glib. So little curiosity about real-world consequences of policy. Feels like economics didn’t drive much of his thinking. “Success” only measured internally within ed - entries, grades, tests etc.
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Interested to know whether “disagree” here means “bad idea” or “unlikely to work”
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So far, so good, but what now? Keep the detailed ratings, hoping someone doesn’t take a view on weighting to calculate a new overall grade?