Boris 'will replace Gavin Williamson at next reshuffle'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Boris Johnson could sack Gavin Williamson and bring in his 'anti-woke' Equalities Minister after the Education Secretary was accused of ruining the credibility of A-levels by 'baking in' soaring grade inflation and allowing a growing results gap between private and state schools.
72% : MP says lack of learning during pandemic has been a 'national disaster' for UK's poorer pupils as traditional state secondaries get half as many A-level A-grades as private schools
70% : The gulf between private and state schools has widened during the pandemic causing a 'national disaster' for Britain's poorest students with fee-paying institutions accused of gaming the A-level system that handed teachers the power to grade their pupils with barely any moderation.
68% : As private schools pulled further away from state counterparts, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, chair of the Commons Education Committee, warned the last year 'has been nothing short of a national disaster for our disadvantaged pupils'.
62% : students have historically been over-predicted on average and the nature of private schools means their teachers are more directly accountable to parents, increasing the risk of pressure to increase grades.'
58% : Controversially, it has also been suggested that private school teachers may have been under greater pressure to award high grades from parents who are paying customers.
57% : Ms Green said the problems of not having a standardised assessment system during the pandemic had been 'starkly exposed' by the gap in grades between private and state schools.
49% : The number of teenagers getting top grades in A-Levels has risen across the board but private schools are pulling further ahead of state schools, almost doubling the number of As and A*s in the past two years since exams were postponed
46% : Private schools have 70.1 of entries scoring A and A* grades this year, compared with 45 per cent across the UK - a gap of 25.1 percentage points, which is the highest since 2011.
45% : But at private schools, an astonishing 70 per cent of A-level entries by fee-paying pupils were graded A or A
45% : The gap between private schools and academies is now 28.1 percentage points, compared with 24.6 points last year and 20.03 points in 2019.
41% : While the rise for private schools this year was 9.3 percentage points, it was only 5.7 points for academies, which are the largest players in the state sector.

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