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A-Level Results
Yesterday saw the publishing of the A-Level results for England. These results would determine whether students were successful in gaining a place at university. This year it was going to be more difficult in the past because a) the number of A grades at A-level had increased, as it seems to have done, year on year for many a year now, and, b) there are fewer places at university available due to cut backs on the back of the credit crisis and economic downturn.
Now I could have turned this into a tirade about how A-Levels are not what they were in my day; how a degree isn’t worth what it was; how ridiculous it is that the past Labour Government thought that every child in the country had a right to a university education. And, if I had, I am sure that a “lively debate” would be had by all…