Steven
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I think the government would do well to plan now for what to do the make-up teaching inevitably required and the 2021 exams season, which all stems from the lack of testing capacity
Boris told Andrew Marr testing capacity may not be there until Spring 2021 (or perhaps less coughs and sniffles going round when the temperature warms up again!)
The BBC comments page on this matter is filled with people saying get on with it like Germany because exams are physical distanced anyway to prevent cheating.
This misses the point Germany recognised early on the importance of test and trace (this country suspended test and trace in April 2020 when there was too many positive results to trace apparently and I received flak for calling this suspension short sighted)
And it is about a student having the required hours of learning to have a fair shot at the exam, not to bundle them into a physical distanced exam setting for the sake of optics
Some people in this world though
Boris told Andrew Marr testing capacity may not be there until Spring 2021 (or perhaps less coughs and sniffles going round when the temperature warms up again!)
The BBC comments page on this matter is filled with people saying get on with it like Germany because exams are physical distanced anyway to prevent cheating.
This misses the point Germany recognised early on the importance of test and trace (this country suspended test and trace in April 2020 when there was too many positive results to trace apparently and I received flak for calling this suspension short sighted)
And it is about a student having the required hours of learning to have a fair shot at the exam, not to bundle them into a physical distanced exam setting for the sake of optics
Some people in this world though