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I wonder how the sun will report this result.

Great win. That's more like it.

I noticed the commie UAF were causing trouble again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pm4K2phX4s

Is there a £3 booking Tax square?

I agree. Dirty creatures that crap all over my garden. Get yourself a springer spaniel - mine hates them and flies out if i tell him there's a cat in the garden.

Coursework must be so difficult. Google. Cut. Paste. Swop a few words around. Done. I used to breeze through coursework (all of it done the night before) with sheer waffle and common sense. If I had to do coursework now with the limitless supply of information on the net it would be a piece of p!ss. So not only are the exams easier now, so is the coursework.

Don't get me started on American dumbing down of the English language.

But they are easier than they used to be, and this is not a criticism of students, but of the exam boards that set the questions. Education Secretary Michael Gove was shocked when presented with the News of the World findings and promised action to make the exams system more robust. He claimed there was too many multiple choice questions, which had turned some exams into a written version of the TV quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Mr Gove added: "I want all exams taken here to be as good as those in other countries - Australia, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong. "We shall be sending a strong signal to exam boards that it's no longer good enough to say our GCSEs and A-levels are down in comparison with a few years ago. It's important that our exams are world-beating." Fears about "easy" exams mounted after more than a fifth of papers were graded A* or A last summer - double the number when the GCSE was first introduced in 1988. In our test, pupils would be expected to do worse on older exams because the syllabus has changed and they are more used to new style questions. But the huge gulf in results staggered the experts. Last night Dr Richard Pike, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, blasted: “There has been a systematic dumbing down of GCSEs. “The UK is slipping into mediocrity and for the sake of the country, for the sake of the kids, we’ve got to change this. “It’s difficult to speak out without being criticised for demotivating students who are currently taking GCSEs. “But it’s better to be honest now than to let them continue as they are, because in five or ten years they will be struggling to find jobs on the international market.” Dr Pike is so concerned about science GCSE standards that he wrote to Schools Secretary Michael Gove last week. The watchdog Ofqual has also attacked the new tests for being too easy. The regulator raised concerns in 2009 that science GCSEs were failing to stretch bright pupils - and ordered the exam boards to make them more challenging. But last week the awarding bodies were sent back to the drawing board with a slap on the wrist, after Ofqual said the exams are STILL too simple. The new science papers will be used from September 2011, so must be toughened up before then. Isabel Nisbet, chief executive of Ofqual, said: "Some of the content was not as weighty as you would expect at GCSE. “Too many questions are based on recall. People were asked to apply general knowledge, rather than using their skills and understanding of science to evaluate the evidence and make a reasoned judgment." Ms Nisbet also said the maths content of science GCSEs was not sufficiently rigorous, and there were too many multiple choice questions. Our investigation uncovered a range of questions that are embarrassingly easy. One of the new science papers asked pupils to name “two types of local organisations that provide sport or fitness facilities for the community.” Another common sense question asks: “Mike goes into hospital for a major operation. “The nurse asks Mike some questions about his lifestyle and medical history. “Write down two questions that the nurse may ask Mike about his lifestyle.”

They've got easier year on year for the past 23 years so I expect your wish will be granted. This study proves my point: http://blogs.notw.co.uk/politics/2010/06/gcses-are-getting-easier.html

I noticed that the GCSE's have got easier again. What a surprise that was.

Don't join in the thread then.

I think i'm right in saying the American accent derives from Norfolk in the main.

You sound like a 1950's version of Boj.

This bloke is pretty good, especially at differentiating between the Yorks/Lancs accents. [video=youtube;i3W8-2DPoBE]

The queen, and the rest of the aristocracy, speak with an upper class accent but they speak properly and pronounce words properly. You can easily tell them apart from those who put on an upper class accent.

This horrible phenomenon is spreading and at any given Saints game you'll hear a cringeworthy "Orwhite Mate" at some point during the day. I think the days of the Hampshire accent are now numbered and as the old folk die the accent will die with them. The same can be said all over Britain as regional accents sucumb to the relentless tide of the Mockneys and social climbers with their "put on" voices.

And they're now 1-0 down ha ha.

What a cool job. I'd enjoy digging holes looking for treasure as my dream job was to become a pirate. What's the best thing you've ever found?

At Birmingham airport I had my hand luggage riffled through and i'd put some of my clothes in there (all neatly folded) and asked her to fold them back up neatly as she'd found them. What a humourless b1tch she was. I was not happy.

Which is why he should do something worthwhile like working for a christian mission in Damascus. That'd be something interesting and worthwhile you could look back at and it'd sit well on a cv, wheras dossing around Japan or Australia paid for by mummy and daddy just paints the picture spoilt brat who's too idle to work.

Which one are you?

Of course not, England and particularly the south has been over populated for some time now. You just have to look at the M3 and other roads and the sheer number of houses to realise that the South is now ruined.

What do you class as "snobby" wine? I am assuming you're a blue nun/black tower drinker.

So that makes Englands over crowding ok does it?

To be fair to those at University now they have got it far worse than we ever did. The issue of tuition fee's is probably the only Liberal policy I do agree with, although thanks to labours mishandling of the economy I don't think we can afford to go back to how it was for a while yet. I think it's fundamentally wrong how the Socialists deprived many less well off people the chance to better themselves whilst squandering money in other areas.