Students are being set up to fail by compulsory GCSE resits | Letters
Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article calling for mandatory exam resits to be scrapped in a first step towards education reform I was delighted to read Polly Toynbee’s demolition of compulsory GCSE resits (How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start, 24 August). Of course, level 2 qualifications in maths and English should be accessible to all school
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Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article calling for mandatory exam resits to be scrapped in a first step towards education reform I was delighted to read Polly Toynbee’s demolition of compulsory GCSE resits (How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start, 24 August). Of course, level 2 qualifications in maths and English should be accessible to all school
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Students are being set up to fail by compulsory GCSE resits | Letters
Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article calling for mandatory exam resits to be scrapped in a first step towards education reform I was delighted to read Polly Toynbee’s demolition of compulsory GCSE resits (How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start, 24 August). Of course, level 2 qualifications in maths and English should be accessible to all school
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