I attended a seminar recently when one speaker boldly stated that good examination results are the by-product of a good education rather than being the main purpose of it. No-one disagreed. Yet almost everything happening in the UK education system at the moment would seem to point in the opposite direction.
In January, the media had a field day with the latest version of the so-called “league tables” – we scored a resounding 0 per cent at GCSE even though last summer 98 per cent of all our entries were graded A* or A. Alas, we had chosen the more challenging IGCSE courses in some key subjects.
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