Archive for February, 2015

500 A level campaign supporters – and counting!

Monday, February 23rd, 2015

One week in and we have just passed our initial target in our campaign to keep A level citizenship. At the time of writing, 503 people have signed our online petition asking exam board AQA not to ditch the only A level in citizenship studies. AQA’s decision to do so has serious implications for access to higher education, but the […]

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Help David Blunkett and higher education professionals save the citizenship A level

Friday, February 13th, 2015

Exam board AQA is the only awarding body to offer citizenship A level, but has now decided to drop it. We think this decision is absurd and baffling. We have written to Geoff Coombe, AQA’s Director of General Qualifications Development, to implore him to change his mind. We have also started a petition at change.org. The more supporters we […]

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