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On GCSE results day: The great university con trick
At this time of year tens of thousands of excited young people are busy packing kettles and ironing boards ready for next term while others are desperately scrambling through Clearing in the hope that they might, just might, get a place to study something – anything – in a higher education institution a long way from home even if it’s only Horology with Romanian at the University of NeverHeardOfIt.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 4:00 am
Just about everything that’s wrong with education today
The current education system, under the impression the youth of Britain epitomize stupidity, seems to consist of a condescending series of spoon-feeding stages in a one-dimensional standardisation of children.
By Jack Foden | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 11:00 am
Why bother changing the GCSEs?
If you wish to change something, abolish exams completely, instead of making them more stressful for us.
By Jack Foden | Notebook | Monday, 20 August 2012 at 4:00 am
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
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