It may be a sleepy day in Westminster, but Michael Gove and his school
reforms have lost none of their brilliant urgency. The schools secretary has today written
to Ofqual — the body in charge of regulating the exams system — to ask that universities be allowed to involve themselves, much more closely than ever before, in designing and
implementing A-levels. In the letter he sums up his plans thus:
And he adds that this process should eventually allow ‘universities, not Awarding Organisations, to drive the system.’‘I want to see new arrangements that allow Awarding Organisations to work with universities to develop qualifications in a way that is unconstrained — as far as possible — by centrally determined criterion.’
This makes a great deal of sense. After all, the decline in exam standards is no
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