Posted by: Martin Bojam
on Aug 12, 2010
From time to time at 360Education we carry guest blogs which we hope may be of some interest to readers. Today's is by David Lowe, Principal of DLD, an independent sixth form college in Central London.
It’s that time of year again, when the release of results seems to give rise to hackneyed and sterile arguments about the validity of the examinations. However, the debate ought not to be about whether A-levels have got easier, or how imprecise a predictor they are for universities, but the importance of education itself. It is critically important to the individual young people who are getting their results, to their families and to our wider society and our economy. We should surely be debating how education can and should prepare students for the world of the future, which is the world that they will inhabit. We should be exploring ways of making education more relevant, focused and ever more effectively delivered.
