Reply to: Snowflake education

[BrilloPad]

NLyUK is good at O levels and A levels.

[LondonManc]

Probably as hard as A-level papers used to be a few decades ago. Ah! Those "educated young people". Taking advantage of lax standards to follow the current fad of doing pointless degrees.

Seriously, we need to reform the education system. Raise standards and go back to supporting university education for the most able to qualify in subjects the nation needs.

Yep, the rich with thick kids won't like it but that's the sacrifice that needs to be made.

[xoggoth]

Lineker said: "We don't know what's going on at the moment. [George] did the Pre-U and they seem to have been marked much harder than the A-level papers

Probably as hard as A-level papers used to be a few decades ago. Ah! Those "educated young people". Taking advantage of lax standards to follow the current fad of doing pointless degrees.

Seriously, we need to reform the education system. Raise standards and go back to supporting university education for the most able to qualify in subjects the nation needs.

[NigelJK]

I'd left school by then so wouldn't know but failure at these was not to be taken lightly as you and your school would have been working very hard to get you in.

[NotAllThere]

These were required for Oxbridge entrance.

Not by '86. Although most of us did take (and pass) them.

[greenlake]

Sometimes, you just know from an early age that the kids aren't Grade A material....

[vetran]

63 groats.

or 126 sessions with MF allegedly.

[northernladyuk]

What's a guinea?

Is it one of these linky

63 groats.

[SueEllen]

In your day you just stumped up the five guineas.

What's a guinea?

Is it one of these linky

[northernladyuk]

In my day you could just do an interview.

In your day you just stumped up the five guineas.

[SueEllen]

These were required for Oxbridge entrance.

In my day you could just do an interview.

[NigelJK]

We had special papers (S-levels) for the super-smart.

These were required for Oxbridge entrance.

[Mordac]

Lineker blames £25,000-a-year school after son fails to make grade | The Independent

His sons reaction on facebook was "Didn't get into uni... cheers school u massive knobbers!"

Class.

Still, he was knobbing a glamour model at the time. Wonder where he got that idea from?

[SueEllen]

Lineker blames £25,000-a-year school after son fails to make grade | The Independent

His sons reaction on facebook was "Didn't get into uni... cheers school u massive knobbers!"

Class.

I wonder why his son failed -

He was spotted on a week-long holiday to Tenerife only a few weeks before his exams, and in March was pictured on a night out with Sophie Reade, a 21-year-old glamour model who won the previous season of Big Brother

All the brats I know revised then again their parents are too poor to pay for them for life.

[SueEllen]

See me after class, girl.

I don't do detentions. I'm reporting you to my mum!