Douglas Kell (Letters, October p21) draws our attention to the “decline in factual knowledge of those entering higher education in the last couple of years”. A few pages earlier (p15) Brian Woolnough tells us “The content of many A-level science courses is very full...and for most physics courses has changed little over the last 50 years”. Which – if either – is right?
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J. Marshall Shepherd (1994) studied this question.