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- Title
John Izbicki.
- Abstract
This article presents the views of the author on the decision of the Great Britain's Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to replace Shakespeare by a set of ludicrous questions in testing literacy skills of fourteen-year-old pupils. More than half the marks are awarded for the pupils' writing skills, not their comprehension of the play. Something equally daft done is to order universities to admit students from state-maintained schools with poorer A-levels than those from the independent sector. This is yet another nonsense and is disgracefully patronizing not only to those from a less well off home background but also to their teachers.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; EXAM questions; EXAMINATIONS; UNIVERSITY &; college admission; COMPREHENSION in children; QUALIFICATIONS &; Curriculum Authority (Great Britain)
- Publication
Education Journal, 2003, Issue 71, p14
- ISSN
1364-4505
- Publication type
Article