Times change, but what goes around comes around. I recall an OASC briefing in the early 1970s when we were informed that the RAF was not attracting sufficient candidates who achieved a Board Grade 5. A suggestion from a non OASC attendee that maybe it would be worth examining the assessment criteria to ensure that they reflected societal change received short shrift. But of course we did change, and have gone on doing so. I recently read an interesting article in
The New Statesman which it is well worth taking a few minutes to consider. I am not for one moment suggesting that the students who feature in the programme exhibit the characteristics described in the article, but it is the background from which they are drawn and they will be different from those of us who grew up in the period immediately following the Second World War. In fact I should be rather concerned if they were not different.
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