Baroness Estelle Morris flickered all so briefly as the best education secretary the country has ever had – remember after only a year in post, 2002, she resigned because the flawed national literacy and numeracy targets were not met. Compare her honourable behaviour to Michael’s silence on the GCSE debacle.
She writes a fabulous column in The Guardian and as an ex-teacher her opinion matters and holds more credence than the Eton boys; she is rightly worried: “The assessment system sends a powerful message ... of what defines success – no value on art, drama, music or dance.”
She is right. The gold standard is becoming the English Baccalaureate and schools are bowing to the pressure of Ofsted judgements and changing their curriculum and timetables to ensure students who wish to go to university take this mythical “qualification”.
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