Replace A-levels to combat ‘academic snobbery’, says Royal Society president
Tuesday 28th June 2022
Young people need broader range of skills to create more equal society, says Sir Adrian Smith
The president of the UK’s most prestigious science academy is to call for A-levels to be replaced with a baccalaureate-style qualification to “break the stranglehold of academic snobbery” towards learning skills.
Sir Adrian Smith will tell a Royal Society conference on the future of education that concentrating on A-levels “forces young people to abandon a broad range of skills at the age of 16”, narrowing their perspectives and limiting their ability to change careers later in life.
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