I don't see why they can't change GCSEs so that there are more demanding papers that can be sat by children who hope to get a high grade. Under the old system, I taught for both O-levels and CSEs. It wasn't that difficult and it could be done even if they all had the same name.
I'm dead against scrapping the National Curriculum for secondary schools. It has perhaps become too prescriptive and fills up too much of the timetable, but It replaced what was a real dog's breakfast beforehand.
As a child who went to lots of different schools, I suffered from a complete lack of continuity when I moved from one school to another. I went to a school that started Latin in year 7, then to two in succession that started it in year 8, then to another school with children from all sorts of school backgrounds where the teacher in despair started again in year 9. I do know
mensa awfully well!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18529471 Quote:
Education Secretary Michael Gove is preparing to scrap GCSEs for England and return to O-level style exams.
Sources have told the BBC that Mr Gove believes GCSEs "have gone beyond the point of rescue".
The proposed changes, which could be brought in for pupils from autumn 2014, would amount to the biggest change to the exams system for a generation.
Less academic pupils would sit a different "more straightforward" exam, like the old CSE...
...GCSEs replaced O-levels and CSEs in the mid-1980s. Under the previous system, the more academic teenagers took O-levels while others took CSEs (Certificates of Secondary Education)...
...The plan is for students to begin studying what the leaked document says will be "tougher" O-level style exams in English, maths and the sciences from September 2014. They would take their exams in 2016...
...The leaked document also shows plans for the national curriculum at secondary level to be scrapped altogether, so that heads would decide what pupils should study.
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