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    Originally posted by Lebowski View Post
    Was talking to sister in law who works at a University helping secure funding she was saying the university's are stuck because pupils course funding is grade dependant, so the university's cant take lower graded pupils, its an absolute **** show.
    That's right. And further to complicate things, the acceptance of lower graded students also pushes universities lower in the following year's league table results, which in the eyes of future applicants makes them less attractive as a place to apply to. And so the financial troubles are compounded. Most universities will be extremely reluctant to take these lower graded students unless they're already almost bankrupt and just need bums on seats in the short-term.

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      So they have scrapped their controversial algorithm and are giving students their predicted grades. It seems the U-turn was the only thing they could do the damage to their current and future voter base would of been a massive.

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        And Williamson is going to survive this, isn't he? There is literally nothing a current-gen cabinet Tory can do that is sufficiently venal, incompetent or downright obscene to get them removed from office.

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          Also, if the algorithm gave you a better grade then you keep that one.

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            ^ Great for the students, of course, but the incompetence is priceless. Incoming announcement: "According to the latest science the algorithm was discovered to be robust when adjusting up, but to be rather less reliable when going the other way."

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              We were warned about this generation of Tories.

              They were fixated on a single issue: Brexit. They are woefully inept in pretty much every area of government. It’s the Slytherin cult of self-serving slimeballs.

              The purge of moderates like Rory Stewart could only result in these arses making an arse of everything they touch.

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                Thread title change?
                United Kingdom VI: 300
                To
                United Kingdom VI: 360

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                  As for universities, also expect a wave of defferals to next year for various reasons, thus making getting into uni for next year's students a whole lot harder...
                  Lie with passion and be forever damned...

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                    Dido Harding, the head of the Governments masterpiece success story Test and Trace service will head the replacement for Public Health England which is to be called the National Institute for Health Protection

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                      Marks & Spencer's is to axe 7,000 jobs over the next 12 weeks

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                        Originally posted by Mayhem View Post
                        As for universities, also expect a wave of defferals to next year for various reasons, thus making getting into uni for next year's students a whole lot harder...
                        Have the Government let a load of posh kids with grades upgraded by the algorithm get all the uni places, now changed the criteria to predicted grades and some won't have spaces?

                        Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
                        https://www.theguardian.com/society/...health-england
                        Dido Harding, the head of the Governments masterpiece success story Test and Trace service will head the replacement for Public Health England which is to be called the National Institute for Health Protection
                        Dido Harding has no experience public health experience, she was Chief Executive of the (privately outsourced) "World Beating" Test & Trace shambles and has been appointed without any kind of transparent selection process.

                        She was boss of TalkTalk when it got hacked, losing the credit card details of its customers.

                        She got a peerage off her old mucker David Cameron.

                        Also, her husband is a member of an anti-NHS group that wants to scrap the NHS in favour of an insurance scheme.

                        Now she's in charge of The National Institute for Health Protection...

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                          ‘World Leading’ Test and Trace system, if you mind. Although, as noted in Private Eye, several of the schemes introduced by local councils have proven to be far more effective.

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                            Originally posted by prinnysquad View Post
                            ‘World Leading’ Test and Trace system, if you mind. Although, as noted in Private Eye, several of the schemes introduced by local councils have proven to be far more effective.
                            Not only that, but her duet with Eminem was rubbish.

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                              Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
                              The National Institute for Health Protection...
                              This sounds like something out of Papers, Please or a Harry Enfield sketch about eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain.

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                                I'm genuinely surprised it's not called something like National Association of Public Health and everybody is going
                                "N.A.P.H? I can't believe they've called it "naff"!" so that everyone is joking about that, rather than pointing out how bad Harding has been at every job, but knowing the right people is all it takes in this cronyism, back-hander fuelled Government.

                                The concept of any member of this Government resigning is an abstract concept.

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