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Boris Johnson spoke to pupils returning to highschool in Leicestershire
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has blamed a “mutant algorithm” for this summer season’s examination outcomes fiasco.
“I’m afraid your grades had been nearly derailed by a mutant algorithm and I understand how nerve-racking that will need to have been,” Mr Johnson informed pupils at a faculty in Leicestershire.
Within the fall-out from the examination issues, the Division for Training’s everlasting secretary has stepped down.
If follows the resignation of the pinnacle of Ofqual on Tuesday.
The Nationwide Training Union known as Mr Johnson’s feedback “brazen” and accused the prime minister of making an attempt to “idly shrug away a catastrophe that his personal authorities created”.
A press release on the departure of the everlasting secretary, Jonathan Slater, stated “the prime minister has concluded that there’s a want for recent official management” on the division.
The function because the division’s most senior civil servant will probably be taken on in an interim foundation by Susan Acland-Hood.