"Certainly I knew some pretty clever miners who got bugger all out of their years in a sump sec. mod. it was an exclusive system.

In truth English education is still pretty much - one size fits all."

Ah yes the English Comprehensive System - one size fits all - introduced in 1965 by??? - Harold Wilson's Labour Government.

There was nothing wrong with what it replaced, but to enact some social engineering experiment they destroyed a perfectly good system, many today wish that we could return to it - you reward excellence - a thing that "old" Labour would never acknowledge, mind you their leadership didn't mind taking advantage of it - straight out of Animal Farm.