The Guardian view on A-levels: another misdirected reform | Editorial

Michael Gove wanted to make exams more rigorous. He should have concentrated on widening opportunity for all school leaversMichael Gove, now environment secretary, arrived at the Department for Education at the start of the 2010 coalition with a closely worked blueprint for raising academic standards. Mr Gove long ago moved on, but his reforms have now reached fruition in the first set of results of his “more rigorous” A-levels. A core group of 13 of the most academic subjects &ndash