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