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The government has U-turned on A-level and GCSE results being awarded based on an algorithm in favour of predicted grades from teachers. But are there still flaws in the system?

A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, after a government U-turn.

It follows uproar after about 40% of A-level results were downgraded by exams regulator Ofqual, which used a formula based on schools' prior grades.

Ofqual chair Roger Taylor and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson apologised for the "distress" caused.

Teachers' estimates will be awarded to students unless the computer algorithm gave a higher grade.

But as some students lost out on places at their first-choice universities, they will now be trying to retrieve their place now they have grades that meet admissions requirements.

Have universities now been left to clear up the government’s mess?

Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports.