Strategic planning and forward-thinking are essential in education, whether it be at the level of government, examination boards or individual schools. We are all in a time of uncertainty, but for our students and their parents it is important that we have a clear way forward. At the moment I have too many questions to which there are no clear answers.
Until after the General Election we are not certain what AS and A level examinations will look like. The Labour party does not want the new AS uncoupled from A level – but there will only be a few months before the new school year starts. If they win, will they freeze everything and tell the examination boards to resurrect the old AS and A level syllabuses in the 2015 tranche of subjects and run one more year of these exams while they decide what to do?
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