17 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 19

Stats Not Standards

The GCSE is a system aimed at keeping people happy, writes Michael Trend WE HAVE reached that season of the calendar which marks both the start of the school and the political......

. . . Leaving The South

London has a new wave of upwardly-mobile Irish immigrants, writes Jonathan Gregson IRISH immigrants seeking work on what is for some reason termed 'the mainland' used to arrive......