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A Level Argument
It's that annual August thing : the exam results.
Every year we debate and argue about the state of the A level exam. Is it still an exam or simply a leaving certificate from college ? Has it been devalued ? Are more students better educated or has the exam been dummed down ?
To me the focus of the argument is all wrong. We have a better educated population as wages, aspirations, availability of materials like the Internet have all risen.
What we need to concentrate on is the growing crisis of half of this country's children failing to get 5 A's at GCSE, many failing to get any GCSEs. We need to get them engaged and interested in school, we need to develop and coach them.
We don't need an elite, we need a balance across all of society.
