Why I moved my kids to an international school to escape A-levels and study the ‘Bac’
The IndependentThere are rumblings that Rishi Sunak is determined to vastly overhaul our current A-level system, and replace it with International Baccalaureate curriculum favoured in Europe. The new primary school had recently become a “feeder” for a secondary school that offers the IB curriculum. I wouldn’t say I made it a mission to send my kids to a school teaching the IB, but it was always a strong preference, if I could. This means we’re effectively forced to decide which academic direction, and potentially career path, we are going to follow at a very young age. It’s because of this that a friend of mine, who chose to study mainly humanities at A-level, went to university, spent three years getting her degree, then realised she actually wanted to go into medicine.
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