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Article: British Association for the Advancement of Science: A-levels blamed for lack of science students
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 6, 1994
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THE GOVERNMENT should abolish A-levels and initiate an emergency
programme to improve the quality of schools in deprived areas, Sir
Claus Moser, one of Britain's leading commentators on education,
said yesterday.
Sir Claus provoked, virtually single-handedly, a national debate
on the state of Britain's education when, as president of the
British Association four years ago, he warned that we were fast
becoming one of the least educated nations in Europe, and called
for a Royal Commission on education. Yesterday, he asserted that
the educational experience of many children living in deprived
areas is intolerable - school roofs are leaking, libraries are a
joke, and teachers are underqualified.