HFHolly Farrell

1. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · by Holly Farrell

   The challenge of examinations in the technological age (opens the original)

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   Summer well and truly sees Cambridge at its best: between the May Balls, garden parties and punts on the Cam, there is also a palpable, collective sigh of relief at the end of exams. However, Britain’s so-called ‘exam-obsessed’ education system has made this a nationwide communal experience, encompassing children as young as six taking their first SAT exams, to 17- and 18-year-olds sitting the A-kevel exams upon which their potential university admission depends. Although such a heavily exam-bas

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2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · by Holly Farrell

   The myth of the grammar school (opens the original)

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   There can’t be many other places on earth where the question of state and private education is as politically polarising as in the UK. It has almost become general knowledge that only 7% of the British population are privately educated. Yet this 7% is vastly overrepresented in the most influential jobs and Oxbridge admissions. Holders of the top jobs in politics, the judiciary, media, and business are five times more likely to have been privately educated. While in 2022 the proportion of places

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