From Straight-A to Illiterate: How the Education System is Failing a Generation
- Katie Kaspari
- Apr 2
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 19
Imagine this.
A group of bright-eyed university freshers—some with top GCSE and A-Level grades, some with distinctions in national competitions—sit down to take their first written assessment at one of the UK’s leading universities. A simple diagnostic test. A short, structured piece of writing. Nothing complex.
And the results? Catastrophic.