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English in the News (Media Studies) (Column)

By English Drama Media

Release : 2009-10-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

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Completing this column just before the Man Booker Prize was announced has introduced a competitive tone. Papers and politicians have fretted about standards as authors awaited the results of their own examinations. Fellow Glossop author (and eventual Booker winner) Hilary Mantel wrote in The Guardian in September: 'These days I'm always glad when autumn comes, when the exam season is over, and the poor teenagers have had their results ridiculed, and everyone is bedded down, or not, in their university or college. In the lead-up, while the discussion of declining standards is going on, I'm subject to flares of retrospective panic.' Yet although some will have prizes, one enthusiastic writer lost her job through appealing rather too successfully to her audience. The summer brought the customary pre-emptive complaints of declining standards. The Telegraph declared: 'The year-on-year rise in A grades is because exams are easier to pass and students are granted multiple re-sits to boost scores,' reminding readers that this was 'just days before thousands of students receive A-level results'. Strangely, in October the Observer was reporting that Mickey Mouse had turned into Tiger Tim: '"Tougher" AS-level marking makes private schools cry foul.' 'Thousands of pupils taking ASlevel exams this summer received lower grades because examiners were told to toughen their marking, the head of a coalition of private schools has claimed.' It is fortunate, therefore, that Andrew Grant's St Albans School has seven cricket pitches where they can still learn, in Sir Henry Newbolt's stirring words, to 'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

English in the News (Media Studies) (Column)

By English Drama Media

Release : 2009-10-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Completing this column just before the Man Booker Prize was announced has introduced a competitive tone. Papers and politicians have fretted about standards as authors awaited the results of their own examinations. Fellow Glossop author (and eventual Booker winner) Hilary Mantel wrote in The Guardian in September: 'These days I'm always glad when autumn comes, when the exam season is over, and the poor teenagers have had their results ridiculed, and everyone is bedded down, or not, in their university or college. In the lead-up, while the discussion of declining standards is going on, I'm subject to flares of retrospective panic.' Yet although some will have prizes, one enthusiastic writer lost her job through appealing rather too successfully to her audience. The summer brought the customary pre-emptive complaints of declining standards. The Telegraph declared: 'The year-on-year rise in A grades is because exams are easier to pass and students are granted multiple re-sits to boost scores,' reminding readers that this was 'just days before thousands of students receive A-level results'. Strangely, in October the Observer was reporting that Mickey Mouse had turned into Tiger Tim: '"Tougher" AS-level marking makes private schools cry foul.' 'Thousands of pupils taking ASlevel exams this summer received lower grades because examiners were told to toughen their marking, the head of a coalition of private schools has claimed.' It is fortunate, therefore, that Andrew Grant's St Albans School has seven cricket pitches where they can still learn, in Sir Henry Newbolt's stirring words, to 'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

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