Youngsters are being taught in an “unforgiving system” where there are “no real second chances”, the president of the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA) has warned.
Alice Phillips said that her younger self would have been “written off at the age of 16” by today’s education system.
She admitted that her own exam results at 16 and 18 “were not the stellar line-up we are accustomed to require today of our aspiring Oxbridge or Russell group candidates”.
She was given another chance, however, by the old-style, seventh-term Oxbridge entrance exam and was awarded a place at Cambridge. By the time she left university, she had gained self-knowledge and was ready to “step boldly into the world and contribute”.
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