Later this week a White Paper will include a raft of new measures aimed at improving literacy across all school age groups, as well as a proposal for a return to the old-style A level, with regular module exams being replaced by a single paper at the end of Year 13.
Teachers have long seen the 'bite-size' modules which are sat throughout the Lower Sixth as well as Upper Sixth, as preventing students from acquiring the sort of depth of understanding of academic subjects that universities came to expect from the country's A level students back in the 1980s.
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, also plans to create an "English Baccalaureate", that will reward students for getting good GCSE results in English, Maths, a Science, a Modern Foreign Language and a Humanities subject.
We welcome these proposals. However, be warned girls! Teachers will now have the right to search their students and confiscate those natty electronic devices....
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, also plans to create an "English Baccalaureate", that will reward students for getting good GCSE results in English, Maths, a Science, a Modern Foreign Language and a Humanities subject.
We welcome these proposals. However, be warned girls! Teachers will now have the right to search their students and confiscate those natty electronic devices....