Today’s Independent newspaper carries a comment piece, written by me, which has been heavily edited. I was asked to write it in response to the approved leak this week on the UK government’s plan to re-introduce a qualification for ‘less intelligent’ students. The Independent wanted something personal and provocative – sadly, they only went for the personal. The removal of the final two paragraphs – where I criticise Mr Gove for the out-dated copying of the Singaporean system – together with their over-emotive header (“David Price: I was scarred by being classified as ‘thick’, as future generations will be”) makes …