CYP Now - Opinion: Vox Pop - Should all A-Level subjects be given equalvalue? (1)

Some universities, including Cambridge, have a list of "non-preferred" A-Level subjects such as dance, but ministers say all A-Levels should have the same weighting since all subjects maintain high standards.

YES - JOHN BANGS, HEAD OF EDUCATION, NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHER.

A-Levels should be given equal value. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority recently commissioned an independent inquiry on standards and found that there had been no slippage. The divide erected by some to distinguish between traditional and so-called "soft" A-Levels is more a resistance to new ideas and a fear of the future than to do with a fall in educational standards. Our pupils and our teachers work extremely hard to achieve good results. Yet each year they are told their achievements are not worth the paper they are written on if they happen to be in anything other than traditional subjects.

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