History of Art A Level - the death knell.
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History of Art A Level - the death knell.
I just read a tragic article in the Guardian explaining that from 2018 there will be no more History of Art A level. AQA - the only board still offering it - will be discontinuing after 2018.
Things like this really break my heart. I never did this particular A level but the fact of its disappearance makes me so sad for our children.
Things like this really break my heart. I never did this particular A level but the fact of its disappearance makes me so sad for our children.
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Creative writing is also disappearing from 2018 and this is also a loss. I am in close contact with a class of 17 years old creative writers and they are working so hard and are so interested in what they do. It is a joy to see how they rise up to the challenges they are given and how they share their passion for books. One of the girl does amaze me with her very vast reading and the words she uses in her writing.
Due to the colossal amount of reading and writing needed , the teacher (who also teachers A level literature) is convinced this is a harder A level than literature – which is itself considered a strong A level.
So the death knell has also sounded for this qualification.
Due to the colossal amount of reading and writing needed , the teacher (who also teachers A level literature) is convinced this is a harder A level than literature – which is itself considered a strong A level.
So the death knell has also sounded for this qualification.
Re: History of Art A Level - the death knell.
If you look at the timeline of reforms threads I posted you will see the other lost subjects.
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There is a petition asking for the History of Art A level not to disappear:piggys wrote:I just read a tragic article in the Guardian explaining that from 2018 there will be no more History of Art A level. AQA - the only board still offering it - will be discontinuing after 2018.
Things like this really break my heart. I never did this particular A level but the fact of its disappearance makes me so sad for our children.
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Thanks JaneEyre. I hadn't realised that it was that complete bar steward philistine Gove who asked AQA to discontinue the A level. I t doesn't surprise me at all.
Very sad to hear about your creative writing students; I'm afraid that is the way things are going now.....creativity and imagination is being sacrificed at the altar of practicality and 'factual' subjects. Thomas Gradgrind would be proud.
Very sad to hear about your creative writing students; I'm afraid that is the way things are going now.....creativity and imagination is being sacrificed at the altar of practicality and 'factual' subjects. Thomas Gradgrind would be proud.
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" bar steward" love itpiggys wrote:Thanks JaneEyre. I hadn't realised that it was that complete bar steward philistine Gove who asked AQA to discontinue the A level. I t doesn't surprise me at all.
Very sad to hear about your creative writing students; I'm afraid that is the way things are going now.....creativity and imagination is being sacrificed at the altar of practicality and 'factual' subjects. Thomas Gradgrind would be proud.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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At £9000 per year it maths and triple science all the way-the economy gets what the economy wants
Bretix compounds the situation.
Tragic.
Bretix compounds the situation.
Tragic.
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It was the only way of circumventing the mods, quasi