Isn’t there? At least, thanks to Michael Gove, my son and his friends will not have to sit wretched AS-levels in three years’ time and ruin their first year of sixth form. (Shame on that Labour shadow minister who has threatened to reinstate them.) Parents will no longer do (now discontinued) coursework for their slacker youngsters and wonder why they didn’t get full marks. Demanding exams at the end of a two-year A-level course marked according to ability, rather than assessment objectives, could, once again, make it perfectly fine to get BBB and feel that you hadn’t failed. Universities will have to adjust their offers accordingly. Parents must adjust their expectations. And children would be less stressed, less likely to think so-so exam results were the end of the world and that a failure to revise bloody Macbeth was a reason to take your lovely young life.