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16:00 UK time, Monday, 14 March 2011
Announced by Education Secretary Michael Gove in the autumn, the new English Bac benchmark measures how many pupils in England achieved five GCSEs at grade C or above in English, maths, a language, two sciences and either geography or history. *Counts on fingers* err, that's six GCSE's isn't it ? Not surprised they all failed.
Susy, Strathaven
In this article, can I be the only reader who completely failed to understand the following sentence?:- "In the film Big Nothing, David Schwimmer's character Charlie is placed in the 'Jennifers and Stephens' section of a call centre because 'callers like to think they get the same service rep'."
Anyone care to explain?
Paul, Marlow, UK
Monitor note: In that section, all the female employees tell callers they are Jennifer and the male ones pretend they are Stephen.
Re your Tennyson 10 essential quotes how can you miss out "Break, Break, Break on thy cold gray stones Oh Sea, And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me"?
Anton, Hungerford
Oh how I chortled at this article about non-EU workers being banned from takeaway jobs by an organisation known as MAC (Migration Advisory Council). I can only imagine that it's a large mac! I'll get my Gabardine overcoat.
James Rigby, Wickford, Essex
I tanked at the 7 days quiz, as usual. But can I take issue with question 5? I'm pretty confident the first-ever census was not taken in 1801. There was a very well-documented census roughly 1801 years earlier.
GDW, Edinburgh
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