http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/in-my-gcses-we-practised-with-o-level-papers-knowing-nothing-that-difficult-would-come-up/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/in-my-gcses-we-practised-with-o-level-papers-knowing-nothing-that-difficult-would-come-up/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:30:13 +0000 Liam O'Brien http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25558 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? ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/in-my-gcses-we-practised-with-o-level-papers-knowing-nothing-that-difficult-would-come-up/feed/ 56