The Directory Businesses and organisations in the North East and North Yorkshire.
Exam results are up again.
Well, yes, of course it raises doubts about standards. My own bugbear is language-teaching. University professors say that even the brightest and best students coming into first years now don't know as much about their specialised subjects as students 20 or 30 years ago. But I bet they know a little bit about a lot more. When Esher Rantzen went to Oxford in the 1960s she had, I think, six O-levels.