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22nd August 1997, 1:00am

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‘We have the ironic position that the Government’s obsession with the more able candidates is damaging the least able, thereby contributing to the growth of the underclass which Labour is now seeking urgently to rescue’ David Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, on this week’s GCSE results.

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