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Writing about: BBC NEWS | Education | Stop harking back to the past

An excellent article by Mike Baker, which very eloquently articulates some ideas which I’ve held for a long time.

So, questions about how today’s examination results compare with the past are, frankly, of little relevance.

If, as I suspect, commentators are more interested in judging the system as a whole then they need a different measure than public examinations.

Because any such measure would have to be fixed and unchanging and we simply cannot afford to have examinations that stand still as they would be a block on curriculum reform.