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Article: The sixth-formers; who are putting in 60-hour weeks The effects of the Government's reform of A-levels are; being felt, but not in the way intended, says Lucy Hodges. Some students are overwhelmed by the new demands
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2001
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Sixteen-year-olds are suffering, according to Samantha and Ceris
and Kathryn, all sixth-formers at Saffron Walden County High School.
As guinea pigs in the Government's reform of sixth-form studies,
students in the first year of A-levels are having to work much harder
than previously, they say. Some are having to put in 60-hour weeks.
Nationally, some sixth-formers feel so overburdened by the demands
of four A-level subjects that they are already asking if they can
drop one, only a term after courses began. Heads say that what they
need most is counselling on how to cope with the pressures of their
timetables.
At Saffron Walden High, a comprehensive in Essex, the incidence of
migraines and ...