University Entrance
Sir,—Your editorial of May 29 on University Entrance advocated allowing students to choose between taking U.E. and Sixth Form Certificate-only courses. This is the case now, and it is not working. The value attached to obtaining a pass at U.E. particularly in a subject like mathematics, is such that even a student who has scraped through School Certificate, and thus has very little chance of passing, will insist on taking a U.E. course. This means that U.E. courses are filled by students for whom the course is not suited. Teachers and syllabus designers trying to match the course to the students taking it can do so only by making the course easier. The present situation is depressing standards, not maintaining them. Moving the University Entrance to the seventh form would permit a range of sixth form courses suited to different groups of students, allowing the talented to move at a faster pace, and thus raising standards. — Yours, etc., DAVID ROBINSON. May 30, 1984.
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