WITH the Government in the process of scrap GCSEs in favour of a more rigorous English Baccalaureate, the A-Level system is to follow suit.

Education secretary Michael Gove is to shake up the A-Level system as he moves to introduce the principles of the International Baccalaureate to schools in England.

Mr Gove is not planning to scrap A-Levels but is hoping to drive up standards by developing an overall framework known as the ABacc.

Students would still sit A-Levels but it is thought, like the GCSEs, that the modular system would eventually be scrapped.

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