Predicted grades are a lottery and work against the poorest students. Let’s get rid of them David Olusoga
almost 5 years in The guardian
The evidence shows that the UK’s university entrance system is not only inaccurate but unfair
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one of the things that makes the UK a bit of an outlier is our university admissions system. In other developed nations, university places are awarded to students on the basis of the grades they achieve in their actual exams. Well, that might work for all those boring nations up at the top end of the OECD education rankings, but where’s the sport in that? In Britain, we do things differently.
Each year when the A-level results come out, thousands of students and their families settle down to deal with the implications – positive or otherwise – of the fact that their actual grades differ from those they had predicted by their schools. Continue reading...
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