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Bristol Post  |  Posted: June 22, 2012  Comments (0)  SHOCK
proposals to axe GCSEs and bring back the old O-level have been
slammed by Bristol MPs.  Education Secretary Michael Gove,
pictured, is working on plans, leaked yesterday, to tear up the
current school qualifications system.  Instead, students would
sit tougher "gold standard" papers on a par with O-levels or a
lesser qualification, along the same lines as the old CSEs.  The
proposals sparked a furious debate yesterday, with the Tories'
coalition partners vowing not to support the changes.  Stephen
Williams, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bristol West, accused Mr
Gove of harking back to nostalgia for O-levels and alluded to
the Tory Cabinet minister's privately-educated background.  He
said: "I don't want educational segregation to be reintroduced
into Bristol's schools. We've got enough problems with the
division between the private and state sector, without
introducing artificial segregatio