Office For Fair Access - Criticism

Criticism

Charges often made against OFFA are that it levels down rather than raises standards and that it replaces one form of unfairness with another as reforms are being achieved by "disadvantaging" the brightest children.

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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:

    “It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige through being mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)