Well, perhaps no longer. This year the grades slightly fell. Why? Those “exam factories”. Says who? The CBI. Honest – and I thought they weren’t keen on us “loony lefties”. Whatever, Katja Hall, the CBI’s chief director of policy, says: “We don’t want exam robots. We want young people who are stretched, rounded and grounded.”
It all sounds a bit painful. Are our students balloons? Plump dullards? Like my Dennis Plum? The morbidly dull Plum certainly became very “rounded”, what with the canteen’s policy of Snickers and Twizzlers and chips. But “stretched”? Dennis spent five years on the rack of the national curriculum and it didn’t take at all.
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