The recent school exam results in Britain made me run to my keyboard, not in joy, but despair. Whilst a record 94.3% of all pupils passed the university-entrance exams (called A-levels), the State-controlled exam board chiefs boasted of “driving failure out of the system” and looked forward to 100% pass rates in the next few years. Incredibly, the pass rate has gone from 77% to the new record in only 12 years. I smell the smell of manipulation in the drive to eliminate failure. What are they afraid of? Mobs of traumatised zombies trudging the streets and wailing “I’ve failed. … Continue reading The Price of Non-Failure