Matt Smith

Curriculum Leader - Economics, Business and Accounts at WQE 6th Form College, Leicester. Dad of 2 wonderful kids. Views are mine

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

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[Dr G 💚🤍💜 🇪🇺 @queenofswords6]

A levels...short thread

If anyone doubts who the winners are this year, here's a random selection of independent schools and the % of A*-A grades this year.

2019 figures follow in brackets.

Mayfield Girls' 66% (55%)
Sherfield School 70% (37%)
Leweston School 51% (37%)

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

@BartonBusEcon And unfair for many students in state school sixth forms.

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Can someone explain this?

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

I cannot express how furious I am.

[Ed Balls @edballs]

How could Education Ministers and Senior Officials possibly not have spotted that giving greater weight to teacher assessment in smaller cohort sixth forms would bias results towards private schools and against large sixth form colleges ? It’s beyond belief ..

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

If this is the case then schools/colleges with large cohorts have been unfairly treated.

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Am I right that the algorithm was not used for schools with small cohorts and so teacher assessed grades were not downgraded?

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Also going forward small private schools will probably be able to return to a normal timetable in September. This is not going to be the case in large inner city schools. There is a major equity issue here. #OFQUAL

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Appalling decisions by Ofqual. They have ignored virtually all the contributions made during the consultation.
No consideration of how lockdown had a much greater negative impact on disadvantaged students who have no access to IT or live in crowded households.

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Impact of Covid19 on poverty in the UK. https://t.co/4yNB1PRMrl

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Links well to our current topic of Inequality.
Coronavirus: Higher death rate in poorer areas, ONS figures suggest
https://t.co/s1vuSiMZ0C

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

Forecast growth from the OBR.
35% fall in 2nd quarter of 2020.

[Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith]

The mammoth US unemployment claims in their historical context.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

US unemployment.
No, that line in the chart is not a mistake: that is a measure of how big this economic crisis is.

[Matt Smith @EconomicsALevel]

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@MrsHumanities @MrMatjilla Many thanks

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Jadon Sancho offered by Man Utd £400,000 a week to join 'em. Good luck to him but here are ANNUAL salaries of those saving us from Coronavirus, just a thought...

Hospital cleaner - £16,551
Bin collector - £17,093
Retail worker - £19,094
Nurse - £22,654
Social care - £25,692

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

I've put £1million in a fund to provide grants of £5k - £20k to small UK charities who are doing/want to do immediate Coronavirus poverty relief.

Please share to let any charities who may want to apply know.

Full info: https://t.co/Iipgw1MVzv

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