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Maths A-level plan 'should be axed'

Updated on 10 July 2009

Source PA News

A proposed new maths A-level is "weak" and will "cannibalise" the subject, educationalists have claimed.

Education for Reform said that the use of mathematics A-level would provide inadequate preparation for university and should be scrapped.

England's exams agency, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has been consulting on the proposed A-level, which would be taught from September 2011.

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