WITH news that more students are passing their A-levels than before, a Newton head teacher has hit back at claims exams are getting easier.
Maria Rimmer, head teacher at St Aelred's Catholic Technology College, believes students work harder to achieve their grades, after experiencing 13 years of changes in the national curriculum.
Mrs Rimmer, from the Birley Street site, said: "It's exasperating and people need to understand these students are working harder than ever.
"This year group has lived through the greatest number of changes to the curriculum and there are now more choices available to them.
"It's extremely unfair to compare their performance with those of people 20 years ago. Students are learning how to sit exams successfully as well as how to study different subjects and they are simply doing the same as the generations that have gone before them."
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