First Rant of the new Page - A* Muppets
Papers have recently been reporting that Cambridge university has declared that they will only accept pupils with at least 1 of the new A*s. To get one thing clear, so far only one college at Cambridge, Selwyn, have requested the A*; the rest are business as normal. Once again leave it to Journalists to misrepresent everything.
What is the point of bringing in a new grade to help universities differentiate between pupils if they are not allowed to use it? The people who object to the new A* grade are defeatists, we should be striving to achieve, encouraging the ones who do, and not hiding failures in a coverall A-C grade.
Claims that it widens the state school-private school gap are further misinformed. Claims by teachers unions that, ’just as the playing field was being leveled, private schools secured a new advantage’ veer on the ridiculous. The government should not be striving to create a level playing field by making exams so easy that everyone can pass them, but by improving state education so it can achieve as much as the private sector. Furthermore, by making the exams so easy, you are disadvantaging pupils who do work hard and achieve, from both private and state schools, which is hardly fair, but more importantly is detrimental to the progress of our society.
Instead of forcing Universities, which are there for education not as government tools for social mobility, to accept lower grades, the government should recognize its own responsibility in improving state schools to the extent that their pupils can aspire to A* level grades.
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