Gavin Williamson was warmed about the impact of the exams algorithm weeks ago

The Times reported that Jon Coles, formerly a senior official at the department for education, wrote to @GavinWilliamson over a month ago to raise concerns about the #AI Algorithm.

Kate Green MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on reports that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson was warmed about the impact of the exams algorithm weeks ago, said: 

“Gavin Williamson was warned again and again about the problems with the grading algorithm, and each time, he did nothing.

“This endless pattern of incompetence is no way to run a country. His failure to listen to warnings and to act on them risked thousands of young people being robbed of their futures.

“It is time for full transparency. The Department for Education must now publish all correspondence to and from the Secretary of State in which concerns about this algorithm were discussed, as a matter of urgency.

“Young people deserve to know how they came to be let down so badly”.