Moaning about exams has, in recent years, become the pastime of choice for school heads across the independent sector who can usually be relied upon to decry the perceived diminishment of the A-level. Some of them are getting so agitated that they are on course to instigate a revolt against the famous old qualification, possibly by importing the International Baccalaureate or one of the new exams currently being cooked up by two different exam boards.
Not so in Scotland where the country’s small but thriving group of independent schools relish the extraordinary flexibility available to them through the main Scottish exams – Highers and Advanced Highers.
