"IMM" wrote in message
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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:24:48 +0100, "IMM" wrote:

"Owain" wrote in message
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"raden" wrote

| Kids haven't suddenly got brainier, there's a political drive
to
| show that the education system is working

s/ ^^ / hide the fact that the education system isn't working

Any proof of this, or is this just inane ramblings?

Take a look at GCSE and A level exam papers and compare with those
of
a generation ago. The fall in standards is depressingly obvious.

Any proof of this, or is this just inane ramblings?



A number of universities give their incoming students the same exams
each year and have noticed a year-on-year decline in their scores, to
the extent that they have introduced remedial classes to their 1st years
to bring them up to the A level standard that prevailed when the
undergraduate course was designed. York and Warwick keep suggesting
themselves to me.

Neil