What the papers say.

This article reports that the A-level saga continues for another week, though education had tough competition for front page space with Edwina Currie's revelations about her affair with John Major. This had the Labour Party conference tittering away, rather hypocritically given the rapturous welcome they then gave to former U.S. president and serial philanderer Bill Clinton. The A-level furore must not obscure wider failures in the education system. The paper backs an English version of the international baccalaureate, claiming that the weaknesses of the education system go much further than the present difficulties with A-levels.