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In my GCSEs, we practised with O-Level papers knowing nothing that difficult would come up
It’s easy to dismiss Michael Gove’s decision to replace GCSEs with O-Levels as a “ludicrous” move. In fact, that was the exact term used by Mary Bousted, leader of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, who accused the Education Secretary of having a rose-tinted view of the past. As the news emerged last night, the Twitterati jumped all over it. Why stop at bringing back GCSEs, they cried. What about leg warmers and fax machines?
By Liam O'Brien | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 3:30 pm
Will we be safer with the investment bankers in charge?
Look at the write downs for Barclays and RBS: $22.9bn and $26.5bn respectively. Those were mainly losses on toxic assets accumulated by Barclays Capital and ABN Amro, the investment banking divisions of the two British banks. Does that show admirable risk management?
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 12:52 pm
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