After the grade boundary scandal with regards to the English exams being marked down due to the swift boundary change, it has been revealed that the Education Secretary Michael Gove plans to scrap GCSE’s and replace them with the much more academically demanding and vigorous English Baccalaureate, which will see pupils sitting their first exams, for this ridiculous reform, in 2017.

In recent years the standard GCSE exam has come under ridicule for being ‘too easy’ and not being ‘demanding’ enough for students to achieve their ‘full potential’ however, this quite obviously isn’t the case when there are 40% of children who fail to make the A*-C grade borderline, leaving them with very little in the hopes of further education, thus implying – How will the bottom 40% cope with the enormity of the English Baccalaureate?

Arguably, the English Baccalaureate is for the elite, and not the banal and uninspired state educated people of today, but this is the way in which I see these reforms.

I believe that the education system is being reformed so that it only caters for the elite folk of the day, for those who will stroll effortlessly into Russell Group universities without a financial or educational woe in their world.

I decided long before this recent revelation to scrap the GCSE’s that the education system is only for the elite, since the ridiculous rise in tuition fees.

Yes, a few sons of rock stars rioted and rebelled at the reforms, but the majority of those were young people who worked hard for what they achieved, and who planned to work hard to pay for their student loans and their tuition debt.

Yet it seems as though we’re going to have to work harder to achieve than those before us, and work harder to pay off the debts and loans, undeniably for degrees that will be wasted away whilst (if we’re lucky) we slave away in supermarkets…

Is this going to be real life… Or the start of ‘The Hunger Games’?

Must get back to my AS levels, before they’re scrapped too, see you later, pals.