I read on the news last week that thousands of vocational qualifications to be stripped out of GCSE league tables. It’s been a while since I was at school but I didn’t realise you could take vocational qualifications as GCSE I thought you had to take a set selection and only had choice of whether you took history or geography and a choice of languages. I didn’t realise that there were so many vocational courses been offered for GCSE.

One thing for sure I wouldn’t have minded doing nail technology GCSE homework, in fact most of my weekends were spent doing nail technology as I experimented with numerous nail colours! So schools should go back to basing their results on English, maths, science and languages and effectively league table results will drop. Although I doubt it because pass marks for these hard subjects are probably not that high considering how poorly kids spell these days!

Like many older people, just in my thirties by the way I cannot really believe results for exams improve year after year. I feel quite useless when kids leave school with higher marks than me with the attitude that they didn’t even need to try to get them especially when I remember all the effort I put into studying for my exams and how I needed some coursework assistance.

However there is a lot more help available now for kids, I mean just look at the whole world that has been opened up because of the internet!