[b800h]

Interesting. My brother-in-law teaches in Bologna and has just been affected by this. He was literally just telling me about it 30 mins before I saw this here! The algo didn't match his first preference, then ditched him for subsequent matches.

The real kicker is that this article is from April and refers to the mess last year. Despite all the havoc, they proceeded to use it again, with predictable results.

[abracadaniel]

That’s the outrageous part of it. They didn’t test it against historical data to find it performed worse. They deployed it at scale, rather than trial it in a small sample. They didn’t notice it leaving large numbers of teachers as “drop-outs” despite only being considered for one position. They didn’t move to correct it, when the problem was noticed. Then to top it all off, they did it again, knowing it does this. Absolutely absurd.