A small revolution was announced by the Education Secretary this week, undramatic in itself but one which promises to end Labour’s practice of eroding academic standards in order to make the statistics look good.
A small revolution was announced by the Education Secretary this week, undramatic in itself but one which promises to end Labour’s practice of eroding academic standards in order to make the statistics look good. Michael Gove has declared he will replace the current system of league tables, which judges schools on all GCSE passes, with a system that looks only at the five traditional subjects. The ‘English Baccalaureate’, as it has been dubbed, will require passes in maths, English Literature, a science, a foreign or ancient language and either history, geography, art or music.
This is not the sort of cosmetic gimmick with which we became familiar during the Labour years.
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