Pete’s already posted on the thinking benhind Michael Gove’s speech on school reform, but reading it one statistic jumped out at me and struck me as worth noting:
The failure of any school in Islington to put a candidate forward for physics, biology or chemistry GCSE is a disgrace. It effectively bars all of these students from applying for a whole variety of science-based courses at our top universities. Next time you hear a government minister prattling on about how universities should do more to broaden access, think of this statistic.“In the whole of Islington in the school year of 2006-7 not a single child took a GCSE in one of those sciences.”
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