School and college leaders have joined the Russell Group in their opposition to plans to make the AS level a standalone qualification.
In a letter to exams regulator Ofqual, education secretary Michael Gove last week confirmed his intention for the AS to be “entirely decoupled” from the A level by 2015.
It will mean that students must choose between a standalone one-year AS or a two-year A level. In his letter to Ofqual’s chief executive Glenys Stacey, Mr Gove wrote: “We should clarify that an AS is a qualification in its own right, so performance in an AS will not count towards an ?A level.”
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