A graphic said 62% of girls scored grade 9 in seven or more GCSE exams. It should have said that of the 732 students who scored seven or more grade 9s, 62% were girls (“The audit: GCSE exams”, Comment, page 39, printed edition only, 26 August).
Although doubtless reassuring to some, it was unduly harsh on the Victorians to say that “many aspects of the Victorian school system – blackboards, easels, caning and capital punishment – have fallen by the wayside” (“Six weeks off in the summer widens the gap between rich and poor”, Editorial, page 42, 26 August).
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