Traditional end of course examinations will be reintroduced for A-level students under plans due to be announced by Education Secretary Michael Gove, the Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
The AS-level qualification, which is currently taken at the end of the first year of the two-year course, will become a stand-alone qualification with marks no longer forming part of the final A-Level grade, the paper reported.
Gove hopes the plans, to be announced later Wednesday, will stop qualifications being broken into segments which he believes breeds a “formulaic approach” to teaching.
In a letter to the head of Ofqual, Gove claimed there was “clear dissatisfaction among leading university academics about the preparation of A-level pupils for advanced studies”.
He said he hoped the new plans would “allow students to develop a better understanding of their subject through the greater maturity that will be developed over two years of study.”
End of course A-levels to be reintroduced
