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Originally Posted by garinda
'Specialist diplomas will also be developed as an alternative to A-levels. Exam and university admission chiefs plan on making the highest-level diplomas equivalent to 3.5 A-levels or 420 tariff points.
The first diplomas will be offered in subjects like environmental and land-based studies, business, administration and finance.'
New secondary pupils will stay until 17 |
Equivalents to.... urgh. They should've just kept BTec & GNVQ courses.
Why try and fuse academic subjects and vocational choices together under the same leaky brolly? It's positive discrimination and it's wrong.