Staffordshire University has expressed concern over education secretary Michael Gove's plans to ask members of the public to set A-level exams in two years' time, claiming that the system is "not broken".
Gove has written to the qualifications watchdog Ofqual, on scented paper, calling for exam boards and ministers to "take a step back" from dictating the content of the exams.
Instead, members of the public will be allowed to set questions and deciding what topics students will need to know. Schools will be advised to put their pupils in for only those A-levels that have been approved by the the public.
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| Michael Gove, today |
"I am increasingly concerned that current A-levels, though they have much to commend them, fall short of commanding the level of confidence we would want to see," Gove's letter to Ofqual states. "In line with allowing members of the public to create their own schools, we will now allow them to set A-level questions."
But Staffordshire University said setting A-level questions was a "much more complex task than letting a few knuckleheads come up with questions off the top of their idiot heads".
"I fear that some of Gove's concerns are based on some dream he had that idiots know better than experts," said university spokesman Ken Lick. "I doubt that white van men are better placed than exam boards to undertake the highly complex task of setting examinations for many thousands of 18-year-olds."
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