More details of our legal challenge to the A Level tragi-shambles (which compliments that brought by our friends, the brilliant @Foxglovelegal) follow. THREAD
You will have read about the types of students the system - with appalling predictability - has disadvantaged. But see this exceptional piece by @RichardA and @GuardianHeather theguardian.com/education/2020…
Our challenge will focus on the unfairness, and in particular the limited and flawed appeal rights (a point addressed in this thread by @Samfr yesterday ).
We will also say that @ofqual has breached its statutory objective to regulate qualifications to “give a *reliable* indication of knowledge, skills and understanding."
We will announce the full legal team - and experts - later today but, for the moment, enough to say that the Counsel team are @fionascolding, @leonglenister and @yvanderman of @Landmark_LC.
We are looking for students downgraded by at least two grades, especially the cases of students whose academic achievements have been downgraded (we know of one case from a C!) to a U.
We will post a crowdfunding page when we have identified the test cases we want take forward and we have finished our Pre Action Protocol Letter - so you can see exactly what arguments we are asking you to fund. We hope that will be this evening. /ENDS
Our email inbox is groaning - we are receiving two or three emails a minute - and I fear we will not be able to reply to them all. We have enough to work through, thank you.
