Four years ago schools were told everything they did would have to change. There would be a new national curriculum, new GCSEs, a new style of A-level. The assessments they used would be torn up and thrown in the bin. Why? Partly because the then education secretary, Michael Gove, felt like it, but mostly – they were told – because without more “rigour” universities would continue having to pick up the pieces when poorly educated students crossed their thresholds.
Leaving aside the fact that higher education institutions, funded at almost twice the per-student rate of schools, really ought to be able to cope with such a challenge, the claim they were demanding more rigour doesn’t even seem true. Four years on, while schools groan under the workload of rewriting every part of their practice, universities are handing out unconditional offers like confetti – suggesting that far from being worried about providing remedial work for students, some no longer even care if these students complete their A-levels at all.
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