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Make exams, which are individual assessments, a much more significant part of the grade.
This system will make exams truly competitive, he says.
Gove said his plans would make exams "more challenging, more ambitious and more rigorous".
Children pick up on that, though we try very hard not to make exams the be-all and end-all.
In his speech at the rightwing Centre for Policy Studies thinktank, Gove promised to make exams and the curriculum more rigorous.
Our campaign to get the exam boards to make exams more accessible for children like Nihal had been publicised in a number of newspapers, including the Times Educational Supplement.
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Labour's basic solution was to fix the symptoms of that failure, making exams and access to university easier.
"Simply making exams harder does not guarantee higher standards nor mean that students will be prepared for a job".
Our exam results culture is defined by the vague discussion every year of "raising standards" – a phrase which appears impossible to oppose on reasonable grounds, until one realises that, depending on who is saying it, we could roughly translate it into either "making exam percentages improve" or "making exams tougher, and still expecting the percentages to improve".
Simply making exams harder does not guarantee higher standards or mean that students will be prepared for a job at the end of it.
Perhaps not to exam level – indeed, part of the point of philosophy is that it makes exams somewhat redundant – but it should be taught to children each day, from an early age.
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