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Brown urged to scrap A-levels

Source PA News

Updated on 09 August 2007

Gordon Brown has been urged to scrap A-levels in favour of a qualification combining vocational and academic elements.

Former chief schools inspector Sir Mike Tomlinson, who proposed a similar baccalaureate system in a 2004 review, said there was a new "willingness" in Government to look at the issue.

Sir Mike said the Government's 14-19 diploma, focusing on vocational skills, "enhanced" the division between academic and non-academic qualifications.

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