Updated 9:21pm 17 April 2012

‘Scrap exams’ plea

BRITAIN’S GCSEs and A-levels should be scrapped and replaced by the International Baccalaureate, the chairman of BT said last night.

Sir Michael Rake joins a growing number of leading businessmen complaining that teenagers are leaving school without basic skills.

He said he believed the education system should move from GCSEs and A-levels to a domestic equivalent of the International Baccalaureate in five years’ time, as A-Levels had been devalued too much.

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