Melting Ice Caps 'Not the Cause' of Rising
A-levels
By The Proper Gandhi ◦ 11-Dec-2007
Bleak future: but students are largely
remaining above C level
Teaching bodies in the UK have belatedly
hit out at the claim that melting ice caps are the cause of rising
A-levels in and around the country.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) says annually
improved A-level grades are the result of better teaching standards
over the past 25 years. "It is nothing to do with the melting of the
ice caps. More and more students are rising above
C level each year, and this is purely down to improvements in
teaching methods," said NUT's president, Baljeet Ghale.
The Government has also been quick to point out that sixth-form schools and colleges in low lying coastal areas are "performing reasonably well" in annual figures, despite some schools struggling to stay afloat amid financial constraints.
In recent days, however, Secretary of State for Schools, Ed Balls, has received a flood of complaints from education watchdogs and environmental activists - as well as personal insults from imaginative pre-teen pupils.
"My office has been awash with letters from people who have it in their minds that global warming is somehow behind the A-level surge. The only thing global warming has done is dictate the type of paper students have to sit through; the choices being recycled or non-recycled".
The Government has also been quick to point out that sixth-form schools and colleges in low lying coastal areas are "performing reasonably well" in annual figures, despite some schools struggling to stay afloat amid financial constraints.
In recent days, however, Secretary of State for Schools, Ed Balls, has received a flood of complaints from education watchdogs and environmental activists - as well as personal insults from imaginative pre-teen pupils.
"My office has been awash with letters from people who have it in their minds that global warming is somehow behind the A-level surge. The only thing global warming has done is dictate the type of paper students have to sit through; the choices being recycled or non-recycled".
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