There’s been another outcry at the appearance of questions based on popular culture in exam papers, with experts criticising the government for failing to take action. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, said that exam chiefs had been competing to make themselves popular with students since the mid-1980s, but that they are “short-changing” pupils because popular culture is “shallow and transitory”.
The proposals in question suggest that students will study the delivery, style, purpose and features of “celebrity” language alongside Shakespeare and Blake, with material from Twitter feeds, speeches from the artist Grayson Perry, newspaper columns, soap operas, music and more.
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