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S2E16: "We need to take the politics out of education": Rachel Sylvester on the Times Ed Commission

Rethinking Education

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The Number One Recommendation Is to Reform Assessment

It's really hard to measure those things, to measure creativity. So given that question of how hard it is to measure these wider things, the number one recommendation is to reform assessment. The headline is this idea of a British baccalaureate offering broader academic and vocational qualifications at 18. And then you were talking about a slimmed down set of exams at 16 to bring out the best in every child. But on the other hand, it's become the tail, the tail that wags the dog if you like. I think everything at the moment kind of leads towards the assessment system that we've got.

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