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The Working Group for 14–19 Reform was chaired by Mike Tomlinson, former Chief Inspector of Schools at Ofsted. It was formed in Spring 2003 in response to allegations that A-Level grades had been manipulated by some exam boards in order to maintain a consistent standard in the face of changes to the A-Level system. This scandal led to the resignation of the then Secretary of State for Education and Skills Estelle Morris. This crisis was part of a longer-term concern amongst the British public and, more importantly, British industry that GCSEs and A-Levels were no longer sufficiently taxing to provide a genuine measure of the ability of students. In other words, examinations were seen to be getting easier, a theory partly supported by increasingly impressive results, year-on-year throughout the 1990s. ==The report== ''The Tomlinson Report'', as the ''Final Report of the Working Group on 14–19 Reform'' was commonly known, was published by the UK Government in October 2004. The proposals, much watered down, were the basis for the 2005 ''14–19 Education and Skills'' White Paper. Key proposals: * Provide courses which stretch children. * Ensure that children have basic literacy and numeracy skills. * Raise the status of vocational qualifications. * Reduce the amount of assessment and the number of exams. * Simplify the system - make it easier to carry over achievements from one course of study to the next. * 14–19 diploma to replace GCSEs, A- and AS-Levels, BTECs and AVCEs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Working Group for 14–19 Reform」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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