United Kingdom VII: Taking Pride in Your Success

[cutmymilk]

It was the process. Pupils did about 20 tests instead of 6 exams and they were all past paper questions. If the exam boards could be bothered providing us with new papers, this wouldn't have happened. After last years fiasco we marked positively too. Even though the results are stupidly high, we have still had a fair few appeals!

[Asura]

https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...-level-entries
Eye roll time again as the gap between results in private schools and state ones has widened again. A whopping 45% of student in private schools this year were given A's or A*'s compared to 25% in 2019.Teacher assessed A/A* grades rode up to an eye watering 70%. The head of the exam regulator Ofqual has vowed that traditional examinations will return in the next school year. Ministers are also said to be looking at ideas related to flattening the results inflation. As many continue to claim it's a perfectly genuine outcome to see a huge surge in top scores during teacher grading, putting it on the performance of the students rather than issues with the system, it magically turns out that teacher graded results may have dolled out a huge increase in the number of top scores but the chances of getting an A/A* has actually declined if... you're poor or black.

The Tories are going to capitalise on this soon, just watch. Reese-Mogg and his cronies are going to use this as an example that "modern methods" have failed us, and will advocate us going back to O-Levels or something similarly Gradgrindian.

[prinnysquad]

Rees-Mogg. The prick whose whole repertoire of Latin comes from memorising bits of a quotations book. It sums him up: grifting off the qualities of others.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/scrapped-covid-rules-bring-fewer-than-20-of-uk-city-workers-back-to-the-office

Despite the lifting of restrictions it's estimated that as yet only 18% of Working From Home office workers have returned to offices

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-zealand-to-slowly-re-open-to-the-world-from-early-2022/ar-AANdMUl?ocid=BingNewsSearch

And New Zealand continues to absolutely boss and embarrass our weak efforts at COVID control

[Golgo]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...BingNewsSearch
And New Zealand continues to absolutely boss and embarrass our weak efforts at COVID control

But there are only about 50 of them in the whole country and all that sea air and rugby makes them fit, so it's an unfair comparison. (Sorry, just rehearsing our government's dodges).

[Brad]

New Zealand and Britain, both islands. One got it right first time, the other ****ed it up, repeatedly, over and over, in the same way each time.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Our government is an absolute ****ing embarrassment.

[Cassius_Smoke]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-to-the-office
Despite the lifting of restrictions it's estimated that as yet only 18% of Working From Home office workers have returned to offices

We should all resist coming back to the office with every fibre of our being. This is the only chance we will get to change working practices. The property owners and government they give money too will fight tooth and nail to get us back in to maintain their wealth. Sod em.

[fishbowlhead]

Our government is an absolute ****ing embarrassment.

Noooooooooo? Really????? 🤣

[fishbowlhead]

We should all resist coming back to the office with every fibre of our being. This is the only chance we will get to change working practices. The property owners and government they give money too will fight tooth and nail to get us back in to maintain their wealth. Sod em.

Be careful what you wish for, tech companies are already drawing up wage reductions in the US & UK for workers that don’t want to go back to the office. Google I believe is basing it on your distance from your given office, up to 25% reduction. Going to depend on the company obviously but they will all follow suit once it starts.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Be careful what you wish for, tech companies are already drawing up wage reductions in the US & UK for workers that don’t want to go back to the office. Google I believe is basing it on your distance from your given office, up to 25% reduction. Going to depend on the company obviously but they will all follow suit once it starts.

I would think there are legal requirements around that. I don't believe they can reduce your wage unless it's a change of job role in the UK at least. Of course if that is the case, I'm sure a few million pounds given to the right politician will see a rule change.

[Neon Ignition]

The laugh about trying to reduce the salaries of those who WFH rather than come into the office is that they're penalising the staff who are saving them the most amount of money and in doing so also cutting off huge amounts of skilled workers. It's self-sabotage for a really dumb reason and a poor reflection on a tech company to penalise staff for working in a tech orientated manner as well. It'll no doubt feel like a great victory for the bosses when the miserable worker who feels like they've been discriminated against comes slinking back into the office, climbs back into their dusty cubicle and once their work PC has finished all its updates starts surfing Totaljobs rather than doing any work.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/12/pret-a-manger-staff-consider-strike-after-temporary-pay-cuts-made-permanent

You don't have to work at home to get that kind of treatment though - Pret a Manger is making effective temporary wage cuts permanent for its minimum wage workers

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/12/gcse-results-pupils-achieve-record-numbers-top-grades-england

And record levels of GCSE pupils score top grades. Not the same rate of inflation as A-Levels but I suspect because there's nowhere near the financial incentive to rig the system at school level.

[Asura]

We should all resist coming back to the office with every fibre of our being

No offense, but I'll have to sit out of that one as I'm really looking forward to going into town every day again, and not sitting in a room at home on my own for 8+ hours every day. I get some people like it (I don't understand it, but I don't really have to understand it to get that some people are fine) but I'm really hoping some degree of office working normality comes back in the next 12 months.

For me, this has been like treading water, every day, since around March 2020. I hate it.

[Neon Ignition]

I've been 100% back in the office for the last fortnight after isolating stretched me to my 71st week of WFH and I've enjoyed being back in the office. I think for me the issue is the lack of flexibility. Depending on what I need to do some days would just be much more efficient WFH due to the lack of distraction and also being able to attend an appointment for an hour and not have to book an entire day off for it. It's aggrevated because the that 71 weeks has nwo demonstrated that any excuse against having the flexibility is BS as well. Still, it's clearly a big factor, returning to office is a very clear visual on the scale of exodus in the staffing that's now happening as a result of it ending