The Guardian - Outcry at Kelly's exam reforms

The Guardian - big fall in language students

Neither of these stories is much of a surprise. They made clear they'd be making a retreat from Tomlinson as soon as the report was made public. I'm sure it's as much to do with fear of bad press if they say they're scrapping GCSEs and A levels as it is to do with what they really think about the proposals.

The language news is a complete disaster. One interesting fact that the report doesn't mention is that language courses offered outside degree programmes are doing quite well. Numbers of students taking a language as part of their degree are falling but a lot of them want to learn a language outside their degree programmes.

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