By Graeme Paton. Major inquiry chaired by Sir Roy Anderson, former rector of Imperial College London, criticises "outdated" A-levels and calls for them to be replaced by a baccalaureate.
A-levels should be scrapped in favour of a European-style baccalaureate because schools are failing to prepare teenagers for university and the workplace, a major report has warned.
Traditional “gold standard” qualifications should be phased out over six to eight years to give pupils a grounding in a wider range of subjects and job skills, according to a powerful lobby of academics and business leaders. More...
Time to change laws in which religious rights trump equality
By Alan Shanoff. York University’s administrative decision approving a male student’s request to be exempted from a group assignment that would have required him to intermingle with women, has been widely condemned.
Editorials in all four Toronto dailies agreed this request for religious accommodation should have been rejected.
Problem is, we seem to have forgotten one important thing: Our human rights laws. More...