Thursday, November 27, 2008

RSC.

Science standards in schools have slipped ‘catastrophically’, the Royal Society of Chemistry declared yesterday.
The eminent scientific body said it had ‘hard evidence’ that exams had been dumbed down since the 1960s.
It said that record-breaking pass rates at GCSE and A-level were merely ‘illusory’ and universities were being forced to give new students costly remedial classes.


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