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The end of spoon-feeding?

Our new exams will prioritise knowledge ― but students will need more skills than ever to pass them, says Phil Parker.

GCSEs are going, EBCs are arriving and C grades are going to get tougher to achieve. If it required spoon-feeding to get some students through GCSE it is going to need ladles to get many to succeed in this brave new world of Goveducation. 

The problem lies in the need to ram home more and more content into year 10 and 11 students’ brains. They will need to know more than what is needed to pass exams. I’d suggest we encourage students to look at how they get that knowledge learned and how they apply it in exams. In other words, we give students the tools in the form of learning skills.

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