Lies, damned lies... and raising standards in education
Source: dailymail.co.uk Posted By: brad S...5335 days ago
In this uncertain world, there's one thing we can all bank upon today: as 350,000 anxious teenagers discover their A-level results, the Government will proudly announce that standards have risen for the 27th year in succession.
The word is that more than a quarter of papers have been awarded the top grade, while an astonishing one in seven school candidates can expect to have scored at least three straight As.
As for the possibility of failure, that's all but ceased to exist