Before we get all the hand-wringing allegations of falling standards on Thursday, I would like to go on record as endorsing this: "We should celebrate the fact that many of our bright young people have got brilliant qualifications and will go on. It's a great success. You would expect higher standards - AS-levels means that you will add another filtering system, allowing people to try a subject for a year and then drop it. 'You've also got the background of teaching getting better. Inefficient small six forms have gone and now we've got cracking sixth-form colleges. I would expect a rising level of achievement, he added."
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15 August 2005
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