You report (16 April) that another thinktank, this time EDSK, is recommending another “baccalaureate” solution to the problems of education post-15. It’s strange that such organisations keep on inventing wheels when there is one that has been going round the world quite happily for more than 50 years: the international baccalaureate. Through its two complementary programmes, the diploma and the career-related one, it delivers genuine breadth of study to students of all abilities and ambitions. And it is “international”, which must be a good thing in the wonder that is “global” Britain.
John Claughton
Former chief master, King Edward’s school, Birmingham
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