Tristram Hunt announces today that he wants to put a stop to the policy of overhauling A-levels. That means that Labour isn’t going to do something that the Coalition says it is going to do. If the party wins next year’s General Election, it will not abolish AS-levels and will delay the overall reforms to consult further and allow schools to get used to the new GCSEs.
Hunt’s announcement is interesting for two reasons. The first is that it is yet another example of how the old education big tent has lost a lot of its pegs and poles, and Labour thinks it can pitch a rival tent elsewhere, whether that be Michael Gove’s fault, or someone else’s.
The second is that naturally Hunt is badging this as a break with Michael Gove’s school reforms, even though Gove is no longer in place.
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