"THE number of pupils passing their Higher exams has fallen for the first time in three years, as results revealed a significant drop in the proportion of those gaining pass marks in Higher English."Call the grammar police. Have standards slipped since the Scotsman's education correspondent was at school?
"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Demand for rethink as English passes fall
Kevin Schofield writes in the Scotsman:
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