• Yes, it struck me that Gove just wanted to recreate his own (Grammar?) school days.
    I also experienced the same Arts/Science split going into the 4th Year.
    The EB is not as daunting as it looks.
    Unless you attend a Cof E school you can knock Religious Education off the timetable in the first term of the 5th year, (in our nomenclature).
    The biggest change is the opportunity to study both History & Geography. Both could not be timetabled back in the '70s, if you were taking all three Sciences.

  • My experience exactly. You couldn't do 3 sciences and History/Geography.

    Was your Russian teacher a possible ex national service man or a CP member?

  • She was a mature woman, who conceivably could have been a '50s Cambridge University CP member. I'm guessing she organised a school trip each year to Moscow, as we all got our visas without a problem.

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