English school-leaving exam results will now be based on teacher assessments after the government scrapped a controversial algorithm that downgraded nearly 40% of predicted grades. The U-turn came ...

Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands At last, Josiah ...

An algorithm used to calculate exam results in England risks unfairly punishing poorer pupils, politicians have warned. The system was introduced when school exams were cancelled due to the COVID-19 ...

Taking exams is never easy, but it seems that figuring out results with an algorithm is far more difficult. The UK government have learnt the hard and humiliating way that a badly constructed ...

NEW YORK, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Colorado high school student Isabel Castaneda checked her final grades for the International Baccalaureate program in July, she was shocked.

The marking system which threatened to downgrade the exam results was not a "mutant algorithm" as claimed by the prime minister, but contained errors that were "predictable" and "could have been ...

LONDON — Following a national outcry, the British government on Monday made a dramatic U-turn on using an algorithm to estimate how students would have done on exams they weren't able to take because ...

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has blamed a "mutant algorithm" for this summer's exam results fiasco. "I am afraid your grades were almost derailed by a mutant algorithm and I know how stressful that ...

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As millions of students in Britain await exam results this month, a row has erupted over algorithms used to calculate their grades after exams were ...

<p>Boris Johnson told a group of schoolchildren on Wednesday that "I'm afraid your grades were almost <strong><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/top-civil-servant-at ...