Top Private School Ditches a-Levels for 'Challenging' Exams

Evening Standard - London › September 04, 2009

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LONDON'S leading private school is abandoning more key a-levels and GCSEs to allow pupils to study "more stimulating" courses.

Westminster School is top of this year's independent school GCSE league table and second in the a-level ranking but has abandoned conventional exams in some subjects including science, English and languages. Stephen Spurr, headmaster of the Pounds 19,000-a-year school, criticised reforms to GCSEs and warned that Britain's "feedback society" could damage young people's education in the drive to eradicate failure.

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Top Private School Ditches a-Levels for 'Challenging' Exams

Dr Spurr said: "We are a feedback society now. We are no longer a failure society. It's no bad thing that ...

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