BBC News – GCSE grade changes ‘affected 10,000 students’.

My dad always says you should go for the ‘cock-up’ explanation, rather than the conspiracy.  However, to me this looks increasingly like a plan to de-value the state – school brand, finish off the process of making all schools into ‘academies’, and thereby move along the process of introducing privatisation and competition into education – these are our birth pangs into Gove’s Brave New World.