roger taylor said the department for education had stipulated that grade inflation should be avoideded in developing the method for calculating grades, known as the algorithm. and regarding the standard, that was a continuous collaboration that we felt was not like other years. it is not like we were regulating the independent awarding of grades by exam, we were constructing together, with the department and the exam boards, national system to determine this. it would not have been appropriate to do anything except involved in very closely in our decision—making style below you started off by saying that you have already apologised and he apologised again, but given the huge amount of information and really dreadful stories that we have had directly from students, i am afraid that in this context, and and the problem apology would not be enough. and he thought grade inflation shouldn't have been the premise for the grading system. outstanding schools of the most professional teaching profession that we have ever had, so, given that process, that improvement in that continuing improve

that is the chairman, i think i am right in saying, roger taylor, the chair of quual.m the executive director of strategy and risk. dame glenys? do you want to introduce yourself, although you‘re not answering questions on to mock thank you, i am dame glenys stacey, very recently appointed as acting chief regulator at quual. would you like to be dame glenys, glenys?” chief regulator at quual. would you like to be dame glenys, glenys? i am happy to answer to either. thank you for coming today. i wish you well in your new position. i appreciate that. could i urge you all to give concise answers? we will mostly be asking direct questions that individuals, or we might say can you a nswer individuals, or we might say can you answer this, orjulie, or michelle, can you answer these questions. but to be as concise as possible, because we have quite a bit to get through today. we received your statement last night, just to let you know, the committee will publish that statement in the next 15 minutes or so. thank you for sending that. obviously i have got to look at the stateme

giving evidence to a committee of mps, roger taylor, defended 0fqual‘s role in the chaos and said theent was warned about problems with the controversial algorithm used to assess results. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley reports. it was a marking system that failed thousands of students and led to widespread protests. nearly 40% of a—level results in england were downgraded and many missed out on university places. 0fqual, the exam regulator, and the government, finally accepted they had got it wrong. today, questions and scrutiny over how it happened. we fully accept our share of responsibility for what has gone wrong this year. i have personally apologised to students and parents. missing from the line—up, sally collier, the chief regulator, who oversaw the methods used. she resigned. today, the chair said the education secretary gavin williamson must take some responsibility for what went wrong. at the outset, our initial advice to the secretary of state was the best way to handle this was to try to hold exams in a socially distanced manner. that our second option was to

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roger taylor added that ministers were advised to hold socially—distanced exams or to delay them.ons were unworkable, then using calculated grades would be the "worst case scenario". labour said it was now clear that the education secretary gavin williamson had been responsible for the mess. during the day, millions of pupils in england and wales started to return to their classrooms, as our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports from shropshire. first day at secondary school in a pandemic, teachers keen to reassure them. i spoke to a few of you and it's completely normal for you to feel really nervous, to have a funny feeling in your tummy, perhaps, feeling a little bit tense... each day, they will be in their year group bubble. some of the year 7s told me they've missed a lot. it feels like i'm not old enough because we missed loads of year 6, so it's pretty weird but it's all right at the same time. it feels like i forgot a lot of things, since i haven't been to school in a long time. maybe in the next couple of years, there's going to be some baseline stuff that we don't r