Education in a changing world - Huge change is the only constant
This morning, 118,713 students begin exams that have been a rite of passage since the foundation of this State. Today’s exam structures would be familiar to anyone who took those tests in the year Peig Sayers — so very long emblematic of our system and its ambitions — died, in 1958.
Emphasis and range have shifted but the destination and route map remains pretty much the same. Despite that, we have reached a point when — to use that phrase beloved by cornered politicians — a root-and-branch reappraisal is needed.
