According to documents leaked to the press, education secretary intends to drop GCSE exams as part of a sweeping reform of the school exam system in  and replace them with exams based on the traditional "" system that GCSEs replaced in the 1980s.  , the deputy prime minister, said the plans were "self-evidently not policy that has been discussed or agreed within the coalition". Justice minister suggested on  programme the leak originated within the Department of Education rather than from Gove personally: "If the secretary of state for education leaked it I would feel very strongly about it, but I don't think he did". , a Labour , criticised the plans on  : "I can hardly think of a worse education reform than 'bringing back the CSE' - dead-end exams for children treated as second rate." Nick Clegg mirrored this complaint, saying he would oppose any plan "that would lead to a two-tier system where children at quite a young age are somehow cast on a scrap heap". Dr Wendy Piatt from the , which represents a number of top-end British universities, agreed with Michael Gove that there is a problem: "the current system needs improving", she told  's , because "some GCSEs really don't stretch the very brightest". Piatt warned "there is a real danger here... there is a worry that at a very early age you will be pigeonholed and then put on a course that is not really suitable for you and then you won't be able to change to the more academic course". , the Education Minister in  , said Wales "certainly won't be bringing back O-levels" and leaking the plans to the newspapers was a "bonkers way of proceeding". Instead, he vowed the Welsh would make decisions as to curriculum and exam reform "in our own time on the basis of evidence supplied to us".
According to documents leaked to the press, education secretary intends to drop GCSE exams as part of a sweeping reform of the school exam system in England and replace them with exams based on the traditional "" system that GCSEs replaced in the 1980s. Nick Clegg , the deputy prime minister, said the plans were "self-evidently not policy that has been discussed or agreed within the coalition". Justice minister suggested on BBC programme the leak originated within the Department of Education rather than from Gove personally: "If the secretary of state for education leaked it I would feel very strongly about it, but I don't think he did". , a Labour , criticised the plans on Twitter : "I can hardly think of a worse education reform than 'bringing back the CSE' - dead-end exams for children treated as second rate." Nick Clegg mirrored this complaint, saying he would oppose any plan "that would lead to a two-tier system where children at quite a young age are somehow cast on a scrap heap". Dr Wendy Piatt from the , which represents a number of top-end British universities, agreed with Michael Gove that there is a problem: "the current system needs improving", she told ITV 's , because "some GCSEs really don't stretch the very brightest". Piatt warned "there is a real danger here... there is a worry that at a very early age you will be pigeonholed and then put on a course that is not really suitable for you and then you won't be able to change to the more academic course". , the Education Minister in Wales , said Wales "certainly won't be bringing back O-levels" and leaking the plans to the newspapers was a "bonkers way of proceeding". Instead, he vowed the Welsh would make decisions as to curriculum and exam reform "in our own time on the basis of evidence supplied to us".
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