‘People go to university because they don’t know what else to do’, says Education Secretary
The TelegraphMrs Keegan was comfortably perched in a chair in the vast make-up room of the London Screen Academy in north London on the day that hundreds of thousands of school-leavers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their A-level results, and a week before the publication of GCSE results. On her first results day as Education Secretary, Ms Keegan drew flak for addressing controversy over stricter grading by saying that “in 10 years’ time no one will be looking” at this year’s results. Mrs Keegan says her O-level results were mostly Bs, with “a couple of As” and a “couple of Cs”, including in chemistry, which “I wasn’t expecting to get at all. “In Knowsley at the time there wasn’t really much A-level provision because not many of the kids got O-levels,” says Mrs Keegan. Fond memories The Knowsley comprehensive was “definitely what you would call a failing school” and closed a few years after Mrs Keegan’s departure, but she remembers one teacher, Mr Ashcroft, particularly fondly.
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