«We Can't All Make the Grade»

Andrew Adonis, the Schools Minister, did not even try to hide his irritation. Writing in The Times on August 21, the day the GCSE results were released, he lashed out at those who would claim that the exams were being dumbed down instead of celebrating the increasing numbers of students getting A and A* grades.

"It is the class-based elitism that instinctively wants to ration success and cap the aspirations of the less advantaged," he wrote. "The underlying premise is that there is a fixed pool of talent in society." And then came this breathtaking assertion: "There is no genetic or moral reason why the whole of society should not succeed to the degree that the children of the professional classes do today, virtually all getting five or more good GCSEs and staying on in education beyond 16."

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