The only surprise here is that the education secretary Gavin Williamson is still in post. Months to get it right, then flailing around before and after results were announced. Inexcusable.

Edit: also a very good example of plausible-sounding models leading to gross disadvantage. The polar opposite of the “levelling up” they love to talk about.

Unfortunately in the UK, it is well known that this government (The Conservatives) is extremely incompetent and have failed on everything.

I am confident that Labour (or any other party) would have handled this better.

What a shambles.

Is there some reason that exam results aren't based on just, yknow, exam results? Why does location or estimation need to factor into it?

There is a very good reason: Exams did not take place this year because of the lockdown...

Headline is bit misleading: Teachers' estimates will be awarded to students unless the computer algorithm gave a higher grade.