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How to organize your "end" of the exam last minute for A2 students, and we expect the space to breathe when they finally leave, you have a thought for what will happen next? Is your work ends when the review is complete, or if you have the responsibility for its success (or not) in the next phase of their lives, either higher education or employment? Could there be better prepared for things to come?

for many, a level is a hurdle, a passport to the next step. According to the recent report by Ofqual A levels are still widely considered the "gold standard" for parents, teachers, students and employers. But prepare students for the important transition is about to undertake, rather than simply proving, verifying that they have learned to take the test?

Perhaps there was always a conflict between the need to ensure that students in the highest degree possible, to improve their life chances, and the ideal of learning for its own good. Pressure, however, this dilemma has increased on schools have increased. The rankings have increased levels of A shares, but are the "golden ticket" that not only decides the future of a student, but the reputation of the school

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has always been and there never was a golden age, when students do not ask "Can I need this for the exam? If not, why do us "But are students who pay up to £ 9,000 in tuition consumers become more demanding? The tripling of the workforce earlier, led to an increase in time or quality of education, according to a report last week. The world is a pressure cooker A levels produced the current generation of students courses, some of which seem to amount to no more than part-time study? Or is the glory of a free university education time to think?

many students do not attend college, and who really love to be studied over the next three to four years. Rather, we see a title like any other qualification required for a "good" job, "good" work they need to pay off debts that have accumulated in the process of becoming qualified

The young teachers are prepared for the independence it needs, whether in higher education or employment?

Do jobs start to think it is okay to submit the report in the afternoon, because they have reduced clearance at school? If teachers do not accept the last bid, then the grades will suffer, the departments will be judged, and schools will fall rankings. But an employer is in the same way?

You have helped their students to courses and the proposed new wording to the extent permitted by the Review Board. However, understanding the value of the original idea? Or the need for self-sufficiency? Many A level students are inculcated with the "can bear" culture. It will be a shock to discover that things are different in higher education.

I have no answers to these dilemmas on the preparation of a-level students for the transition. But I think you have to deal with both individual teachers and the highest level. Our youth are units of production and we must educate them and prepare them for independence.

course, when students were A2, as students go back and have to think about their preparation for applying to higher education. But that's another story ...

. Barbara Hibbert has taught history and politics for over 30 years, 20 of them as department head. She taught at a level and International Baccalaureate and was involved in the development of the history exam for the Cambridge Pre-U. She is now a freelance writer, trainer and educational consultant.

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