The big news story of today is the fact that A-Level (for my American friends these are the last set of exams sat by teenagers before they go to university) results have come out today showing a national pass rate rise for the 25th year in a row. Furthermore more than one in four UK A-level entries were awarded the top A grade.
Every year they run this story and every year I get more and more flummoxed. The cleverer the youth of our nation become the worse they get at sending in decent job applications and covering letters. I have, over the years, had applications from graduates looking to get into PR and I can safely say, hand on heart, that if I filtered them based on spelling and grammar then I would have employed very few people!
This joyful trumpetting of our nation's brainpower sits in direct contrast to the lawlessness on our streets with the rise in knife and gun crime and gangs of kids beating people to death fuelled on drugs and drink. Are our youngsters more intelligent year-on-year? Should we be pleased that the next generations will move our country forward or are our standards slipping? Only time will tell.
And trumpetting means...?
Posted by: Three Grade A's | August 17, 2007 at 11:31 PM
Ah well if you will forgive my extra T then I will forgive your redundant apostrophe Three Grade As
Posted by: Jacki Vause | August 20, 2007 at 01:25 PM