There is interesting follow-up work to be done here on teachers', parents' and peers' responses to poorer children achieving grades above expectations, and indeed how this plays out across gender, ethnicity and for pupils with additional needs.
When I spoke to parents of children with special needs, several wondered if the higher Ofsted grades were a function of less rigorous expectations on special schools.
Others realise that although they arrived with better grades than the white Etonion on their course, they won't do as well as he does in their finals because, they are repeatedly told, their writing style is "too feminine".
It wasn't like "you get good grades so go to school every day", instead I couldn't go to school and that brought the desire to learn.
Colin Bradbury Why not spend the £400m that a new hall might cost on providing first access and continuing musical education in schools and hubs, particularly for those from the C1, D and E social grades who are seriously disadvantaged under current funding schemes?
These are then corresponded to grades ranging between F- to A+. Related: Could grade point average work in UK?
Alan Ellis now spent almost all his free time keeping the site running, and as his grades suffered, he was forced to repeat a year at university.
Today's Irish Independent reports that 19 staff in the department of finance at principal and assistant principal grades shared "special service payments" of €53,394.
Revealing that one in 100 A-level and GCSE grades were changed after challenges by schools and pupils this summer, Ofqual said it was particularly concerned with the upsurge in challenges and warned of "significant implications" for schools of changes to the systems of marking and re-marking for the exams.
With about 8m A-level and GCSE grades certified in 2014, that meant that nearly one in every 100 was changed as a result of challenges.
In exams taken this summer, the number of grades challenged rose by 26% compared with 2013, to 414,000; and 77,000 of those challenges resulted in grades being revised, a 42% increase on 2013.
