What to learn from A-level chaos? GCSE results should now be thrown in the bin | Simon Jenkins

The introduction of an algorithm ignored the fact that losers shout louder than winners

Poor Gavin Williamson. This year should have been his dream. More British students than ever will go on to university. More than ever will be from disadvantaged backgrounds. And their unexamined A-levels will stand to their credit, with 2% more getting A and A* grades. Pupils everywhere would be pictured “jumping for joy” in the time-honoured newspaper fashion.

But these are facts and facts make poor headlines....