Saturday 19 June 2010

Upon Examination

How hard could it be to examine everyone both by coursework and by final examination, simply awarding the lower mark as the final grade?

However, there is no avoiding the fact that the "gender gap" began precisely with the introduction of Thatcher's wretched GCSEs. Girls do better than boys because the whole thing is designed to ensure that they do. Not the only problem with GCSE. But certainly one of them.

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