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Tom Dodds on transport matters »For the last three years I have been The Journal's education correspondent, and though I now looking after all matters digital, I will be coming out of retirement on Thursday to cover the A-level results.
So if you are a lazy child or a worried parent dreading those results, take comfort at least from the fact that I'm dreading them even more.
When you've covered one lot of A-levels - lots of kids getting loads of A grades and going to university - you've pretty much covered them all. The story is pretty much the same every year, just with different faces.
Of course, for the children (and their parents) involved, it's one of the biggest days of their lives and we hope our coverage will reflect that excitement. It's just hard to find anything new to say.
The other thing that crops up every year with painful regularity is the "expert", probably from the "business community", who will be wheeled out to complain that A-levels are getting easier.
This seems to me (a) a bit churlish, when kids have obviously worked hard and (b) a bit pointless, as there's no way of really comparing how children are doing now, in a world where subjects have all moved on, to what kids were doing in 1937.
Ah well - good luck, everyone!
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