Furious Iain Dale brands Government's handling of exam results a "political scandal" | LBC
August 18, 2020
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as posted by the channelThis was Iain Dale's furious monologue about the Government's handling of the exam results crisis - he was so enraged he ripped up the Education Secretary's statement.
After days of mounting pressure, and with students left devastated after their results were downgraded by a computer algorithm, No10 changed its policy to allow teacher assessments to dictate student grades.
Iain was relieved the Government did a U-turn, "but the way it's been handled is a political scandal."
"If you're going to do a U-turn, if you're in a crisis, if you're in a hole and you want to stop digging, you have to dig your way out of it. One way to dig yourself out of it is to effectively try and turn some negatives in to positives...you apologise to the people that have been affected by the decision," he said.
"What did the Government do today? What did these maestros decide to have as a communication strategy? What they decided to do was get the head of Ofqual to do a recorded message."
The Government also issued a statement from the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson about the exam results U-turn, which Iain read out then proceeded to rip up, entirely unimpressed.
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