I’m no expert. I used to be a school governor, so that proves it. But I have been a student and am the parent of one. I was good at exams; but we’ve all known bright people, good at everything all year in class, who couldn’t hack them. Equally, there were plenty of teachers by whom I would not have wanted to be assessed. Terrifying either way; and then a few years after you leave school, you realise that no one in the real world has shown the least interest in, nor checked, your exam grades anyway…
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.