Rethinking exams and keeping them relevant in the age of AI.

Описание: I'm not against exams, in fact I believe exams are crucial because the problem we're now facing with artificial intelligence is that if we go down the coursework route we're not really sure that that work has been produced by children, you know, and we know that middle-class parents are able to assist children, it's correct, tuition can help. What we need to be sure of is when we bring children into an exam room is that the work that they produce in there is from them, it's not come from some other source. So I am not against exams, I think we need them, but it's trying to devise a system where what we're doing is appropriate to what children or young people will need in the future.

So one of the key things that happens or occurs in schools is failure in literacy and numeracy. This often happens as early as primary school, so it's important that we do have good literacy and good numeracy up to GCSE. I'm not against the idea of resitting GCSEs, I think for some people that's really good, but if we could rethink the way we do exams in the sense that what is required, literacy and numeracy, for someone who's going to follow a vocational career, you know. They need to be able to measure things, they need to be able to perhaps use maths and utilise their English and literacy skills, but not in the sense of, you know, being very academic.

I mean academic pursuits are only suit a certain number of people, and it doesn't mean you're not intelligent if you don't follow an academic route, it just means that you don't need all of those skills. But I'm not against exams, I think we should have them, and if the government is proposing that we move away from that, I think that's a mistake.