I'VE HEARD OF THIS. BROADER COVERAGE, GAPS BRIDGED BETWEEN GCSE AND A LEVEL AND BETWEEN VOCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION, A HIGHLY LITERATE, NUMERATE AND COMPUTER-LITERATE WORKFORCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY. WHOM SHOULD WE THANK?

Sir Ron Dearing, who else? His review of post-16 education was accepted by the last government and, after a years extra consultation, by the present one as will.