“A survey this week showed that 90% of academics thought A-levels had become less demanding. In the highly rated actuarial-science course at London’s City University, for example, the first term of the first year is spent filling in gaps in maths that students used to learn at A-level: chiefly geometry, vectors and calculus. The university-level maths that actuaries need is crammed into two terms of the first year.” more…
