David Davis; Grade Deflation; Lost Data

More for the govt to worry about (or ignore, which seems to be their standard mode of operation).

David Davis has a website, plus a Twitter link: David Davis For Freedom. It comes to something when you find yourself agreeing wholeheartedly with a Tory. Will the useless British media allow any proper discussion of these matters to happen?

And at the same time the govt manage to buy its way through to passing its disgraceful 42 day detention bill (security, security, security), news of more lost data (security data).

More evidence of the degradation of the education system in the UK. Firstly, the gradual return of O-levels under a new guise. More than 250 private schools have already ditched GCSEs and state schools are also now looking for an alternative. GCSEs are obviously real good, then, innit?

Secondly, the grade inflation rife in UK universities.

And thirdly, Imperial College London are to extend their undergraduate degree courses by one year because students have not been given the basic skills at A-level. That could be done with Humanities subjects as well. We now have the situation in universities in which English students cannot write English, Maths students cannot do basic arithmetic and Architecture students cannot draw. The govt, however, think this is fine.