One U-Turn Deserves Another
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the latest in the summer of U-turns, as the government disown the algorithm responsible for last week's controversial A-level results. Then, in You Ask Us, they discuss how severe the Labour party's internal rumblings really are.
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| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. On today's new statesman podcast we discuss the grades U-turn and you ask us how much |
| 1:28.8 | internal opposition is there to Kiea Star. Okay, we're speaking as the government is you turning on on the way that it's grading |
| 1:38.0 | A-level and GCFC results. Stephen, what's going on? |
| 1:41.0 | So, as listeners will, unless they have just subscribed from, you know, a bunker somewhere, in which case I would go back in while you still can. |
| 1:50.0 | The exams watchdogs of the four governments of the UK have all tried to use |
| 1:56.7 | algorithm in heavy inverted commas to set the grades for this year. This has seen |
| 2:01.9 | many people have their grades |
| 2:03.0 | downgraded many people missing their offer because of like the nature of sort of |
| 2:07.3 | sample sizes you have kind of like if someone in like the last five years in |
| 2:11.4 | your school has got being given a you right that |
| 2:14.2 | pulls the distribution down enough that you know it's like you know so someone is |
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