Its about time that exams stopped being 'dumbed down'.I also think schools should get back to core subjects and make it compulsory to take a least one foreign language.
Mostly agree, but not entirely about the foreign language. One of the few commercial advantages that we have over our European neighbours, as well as many other countries, is most of us are already reasonably fluent in the foreign language that (arguably) above all others makes the world tick... American English.
My own view is we should make best use of that advantage, and reassign the time the Euro kids
must spend learning American English, to give our own kids a deeper entrenchment in, say, Maths or Engineering.