ABSTRACT
In November we received in the post what we thought was a PhD thesis: it turned out to be one month’s press cuttings on Curriculum 2000 collected and analysed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). This document, which was at least seven centimetres thick, demonstrated the continued newsworthiness of A levels, two years after the introduction of reforms to the advanced level curriculum. Two main themes emerged from the thousands of words contained in this document-either Curriculum 2000 has been a disaster and we should never have messed about with A levels, or let’s now finally get on with a new system such as a Baccalaureate.
