Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday 23 August 2007
A Kick In The Privates
So GCSE results are up in state schools and down in fee-paying ones. Not much of a measure of education as such, I grant you. But I have always suspected that the latter were not really that good after all, or at least that they were as likely as the former to be good, bad or indifferent. After all, they have long been in the vanguard of disputing the validity of the current examination system, yet they base their commercial appeal on how good they are at those very same exams. What's all that about?
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