Closed petition Allow state schools the same right as private schools to sit IGCSEs .

Closed on 30 March 2015

As reported in the TES on 30/08/14, "independent schools' desertion of the GCSE in favour of its international counterpart is continuing to snowball." Barnaby Lenon, a former Head of Harrow, calls these "our best known, very good schools" in the same article, "the small elite" reported as being able "to dominate top roles" in a BBC story of 28/08/14.

Meanwhile, state schools are to be prevented from sitting these same IGCSEs because they do not share the same construction as the government's reformed GCSEs, or the same "level of challenge."

So is the government really saying that the exams preferred by the well known, very good elite are too easy for bog standard comprehensives? Or is the real aim here to keep state results as "variable" and "volatile" as Ofqual found them to be this year?

Either way, let's have a level playing field!