Are You Rethinking the Purpose and Function of Exams?

Kika: I think education has become almost too child centric. We need to have young people who genuinely engage with climate change, she says. A third of young people are being made to feel like failures at 16 because our exam system is set up to result in that and it's having a negative impact on their mental health. So I definitely think we need a big rethink of the assessment system. But you know, there might be an unfashionable strain of thought, Kika adds.