"John Rumm" wrote | It think you will find the primary concern is that the exams might not | be as difficult as they once were. This has little to do with class, | since it devalues the achievement of all the pupils, and the merit of | the qualification for all, irrespective of class.
During the last "That'll Teach 'Em" series, I was thinking how similar my education had been (in a rather backwards, academically demanding, but otherwise useless school) in the 1980s to that of the 1950s.
I have proof-read BA dissertations written in English that I would have been ashamed to submit as O level homework.
There's a second series set in a Secondary Modern starting later tonight.
| As an aside, while in a bookshop the other day, I picked up some of the | text books for A level computer science (or ICT as they call it these | days). I was a little disappointed to see that depth each topic was | explored to was almost trivial in comparison to what I would have | expected to see at A level. In fact it was somewhat less than that which | was expected of us when we did O level - let alone A level (in 1985/6).
That's because it's probably not real Computing Science - it's an A Level in Using Microsoft Proprietary Applications.
| ... universitys
Ahem :-)
Owain