Dear Ed, Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Bill I am writing to bring to your attention a recent exchange of letters between the RSS and the Scottish Government. As you will be aware, the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee have recently introduced a Bill to reform current practice in Scotland on […]
Dear Stephen Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Bill Thank you for your letter of 9 October 2020 regarding the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Bill. As you may have seen in my evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee, I regard official statistics as a public asset that should be equally available to all. My letter to the […]
Dear Professor Ashby and Ms Witherspoon, REVIEW OF STATISTICAL MODELS USED FOR GRADING 2020 EXAM RESULTS Thank you both for your letter of 14 August highlighting concerns about the statistical models used to determine exam grades across the UK this year. You have requested the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) conducts a review of the […]
Dear Ed, We are writing as President and as Vice President, Education and Statistical Literacy of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) to ask formally that the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) conduct a measured review of the statistical models that qualifications regulators across the UK put in place, and the process by which they did […]
Dear Professor Ashby and Professor Nason, TEF holding reply to Professor Deborah Ashby and Professor Guy Nason – RSS Thank you for your letter of 5 March 2019. I appreciate you taking the the time to share your concerns about the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF). I have asked my team to look […]
Dear Ed, We are writing to you on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) to express our serious concerns about the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) produced by the Department for Education/Office for Students (DfE/OfS). The TEF is in large part a statistical artefact, and we are concerned that it does not […]