Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scale of public anger over the automated downgrading of thousands of students’ A-level results highlights how much social and ...

The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much public anger at its perceived unfairness that it’s widely become known as the ...

As anger erupted following the release of A-level grades last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted that the results were “robust”, “good” and “dependable for employers”. But just days later, ...

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies. The fiasco with the calculations for A-Level result marks has projected the unfairness of algorithms into the spotlight. In modern ...

The government’s attempt to grade thousands of students by algorithm has been a disaster. Hundreds of student protesters, gathering outside the Department for Education, on August 16 made this ...

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The scale of public anger over the automated downgrading of thousands of students’ A-level results highlights how much social and political power algorithmic decision-making now has. As well as ...