@isowman @mrianleslie Just to note that children don't get one GCSE grade across all their subjects, they get individual subject grades.
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David Dorrell
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David Dorrell
@DavidDorrell1
Head of Data Science at Frontier Economics. Ex HMPPS, CMA & Deloitte. All things numbers, sport and food. Views = my own. Retweets not endorsement.
Kent, UK Katılım Mart 2018
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@mrianleslie It's baffling.
Students get their performance distilled to a single letter or number.
Employees get their annual performance summarised by a grading of some kind.
Many industries are inspected and also have a one or two word summary.
So why not schools?
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Let’s be honest: this is a decision taken in the interests of teachers, not parents.
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP
🚨 NEW: We’re scrapping single headline Ofsted judgements with immediate effect. Ofsted judgements have been high stakes for schools, low information for parents. We’ll: ✅ Give parents more transparency ✅ Drive high & rising standards ✅ Pave the way for school report cards
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I wondered why my phone started beeping, had no idea why.
And to return the unexpected compliment "At my club, there's a guy called Ivan Toney (a centre forward) and he talks a lot about scoring goals, creating chances for others, proving people wrong, and smiling at the doubters
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As the UK sees the hottest days of the year, it’s not just the temp that’s rising unevenly. In London, more deprived areas with less greenery are 3.3°C warmer than their more affluent counterparts, with implications for health and wellbeing.
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Summer is finally here 🌞! My #datascience team @FrontierEcon has mapped urban heat islands against deprivation with some important results. #geospatial #climate
frontier-economics.com/uk/en/news-and…
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I’ve been saying for years that crows are the second biggest threat to humanity after climate change…
No Context Brits@NoContextBrits
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@Ed_Dorrell If you go outside every day and shout at the sun to turn itself off, eventually there will be an eclipse…
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Don't want to alarm you but this evening one of my daughters did the thing I asked her to do to at the first time of asking. I'm calling it the April Miracle.
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And we’re also the highest ranked team on net transfers in England too. The stuff dreams are made of.
Griffin Park Grapevine (Brentford FC)@bfcgpg
Imagine at this time someone confidently predicting that 16 years later the next 4 home games would be 1⃣ Manchester City 2⃣ Liverpool 3⃣ Chelsea 4⃣ Manchester United with a visit to Arsenal squeezed in too (12 home points for the taking too😇)
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Imagine at this time someone confidently predicting that 16 years later the next 4 home games would be
1⃣ Manchester City
2⃣ Liverpool
3⃣ Chelsea
4⃣ Manchester United
with a visit to Arsenal squeezed in too
(12 home points for the taking too😇)
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@Dave_Tom1 @terrystuckshop @joshuagraham12 @peteheller @xpre552 I think you've tagged the wrong Dave Dorrell. I haven't been confused with the DJ Dave Dorrell since Manchester '97. I'm more statistics and data these days... :)
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Wow! Ben Turner going off on Junior Vasquez in 1997. I admit I was guilty of falling for the cult of personality back then. But the real ones knew. Hey @terrystuckshop you’re in here, too. What say you of those days?
Muzik non-stop@muzikmagbot
Muzik issue 23, April 1997, page 168 Full magazine: archive.org/details/muzik0…
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Frontier’s analysis for The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) features on today’s front page of @thetimes providing a comprehensive overview of the cost of adults with obesity in the UK. Read more on the post below.
twitter.com/thetimes/statu…
The Times and The Sunday Times@thetimes
Britain’s weight problem is costing almost £100 billion a year and will scupper Rishi Sunak’s plans to get the sick back to work, analysis suggests ⬇️ #Echobox=1701668231-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.co.uk/article/obesit…
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It was a great talk on using #ArtificialInteligence for #NLP. The power of large language models for classification is very exciting!
Frontier Economics@FrontierEcon
We were delighted to welcome Professor @kenbenoit of the @LSEDataScience to Frontier yesterday to give a fascinating talk on his most recent research. Find out more: okt.to/RyTvgH
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One of a kind pub the Foresters Arms in Tonbridge has had a revamp of its outside space with secluded seating at the front & a covered courtyard garden at the back. Inside it's a quirky world of curiosity, thanks to licensee Tyson Marshall. More here: snea.me/foresters-arms… 🍻
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New Senior Economist vacancy @OECDinnovation to contribute to the work of the Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and of the Working Party of Industry Analysis.
More details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/OECD/743999930…
Deadline: Oct 4th
@C_Criscuolo
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I'm off to pastures new but this is great job to lead a fantastic #DataScience team in an organisation of growing global importance. DM me if you want to chat.
civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…
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Fantastic lineup including among others @TomValletti, @ameliafletecon, @Caffar3Cristina, @DavidDorrell1, @DianeCoyle1859, @stefanhunt and @ershov_daniel.
Programme and registration at the link below:
sites.google.com/view/anikandro…
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