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Old 17-09-2012, 17:13   #14
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Re: [Update] "English Baccalaureate" replaces GCSE in England

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A qualification that is based entirely on final exam performance should achieve precisely that. There are no opportunities to endlessly reproduce coursework until you get the right result if everything hangs on the final assessment. For the first time in decades, it's just possible that exam results in England might prove that school pupils have actually learned stuff ...
Actually the only single thing that's going to be the most effective is...

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There will be one exam board for some key subjects - English, mathematics, sciences, history, geography and languages - rather than having different exam boards competing with their own versions.
That was what really needed.
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