‘WheresBoris’ trends on Twitter as critics snipe at UK PM for taking holiday
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Using the hashtag “wheresBoris”, a play on the popular children’s book Where’s Wally?, Johnson’s critics took to Twitter to report the UK leader missing in action, leaving Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to take the heat.
With exams cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic, the UK government asked the exam regulator, Ofqual, to come up with a way of giving students the grades they would have got.
But the algorithm has seen top students downgraded and some were failed altogether if they go to a school that has had poor results in the past. Hundreds of students protested, calling the results an injustice.
Conservative backbench MPs were also reportedly furious at the government in approving the algorithm system, despite concerns raised by the House of Commons education select committee in July. Johnson only a few days ago had described the marking system as “robust and dependable”.