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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostProbably 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.
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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
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.
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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.
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Originally posted by NigelJK View PostThese were required for Oxbridge entrance.
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Sometimes, you just know from an early age that the kids aren't Grade A material....
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostIn my day you could just do an interview.
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We had special papers (S-levels) for the super-smart.
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Originally posted by saptastic View PostLineker 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.
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Originally posted by saptastic View PostLineker 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.
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
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