It is not the first case of a vanishing van. They’ve gone AWOL before. Is there some kind of Academic Bermuda Triangle out there?
The latest incident prompted much panic and rewrites and the situation was quickly solved. And I’m not sure how serious this really is.
It might matter in some subjects, but it doesn’t in mine – English Literature. I could always guess the questions on Mice and Men, Macbeth or Miller. It didn’t change a thing. Some would still fail all ends up.
But who could it be? Who are the villains? And what could be their motives? Disenchanted teachers for whom the exams are rubbish and landfill? A St Trinian’s scam? A Molesworthian lark? A rival exam board? Management hitmen dreading Special Measures? Or flyboys flogging them in back alleys to the more fanatically aspirational academies?
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