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What do Shakespeare, Orwell and Russell Brand have in common? More than is admitted by critics of the OCR exam board's decision to include My Booky Wook alongside Animal Farm and Twelfth Night in its revised English language and literature A-level texts. OCR's decision to use Brand's memoir is perfectly in tune with Department for Education's aims for the English language and literature A-level. The DfE fumes anonymously about "dumbing down". More worrying are hints that Ofqual, the exams regulator, will deny its approval. Since Ofqual's meant to be independent, the DfE should stay away. OCR will stick to its guns, because its new A-level is not Eng lit, as it used to be known, but a study of a living language, including Twitter. As for a TV personality being lightweight: a young Michael Gove got his big break in a Channel 4 comedy called A Stab in the Dark. Rather what the DfE was trying to do to OCR. What do Shakespeare, Orwell and Russell Brand have in common? More than is admitted by critics of the OCR exam board's decision to include the author of My Booky Wook alongside those of Animal Farm and Twelfth Night in its revised English language and literature A-level texts. OCR's decision to use Brand's memoir is perfectly in tune with Department for Education's aims for the English language and literature A-level. The DfE fumes anonymously about "dumbing down". More worrying are hints that Ofqual, the exams regulator, will deny its approval. Since Ofqual's meant to be independent, the DfE should stay away. OCR will stick to its guns, because its new A-level is not Eng lit, as it used to be known, but a study of a living language, including Twitter. As for a TV personality being lightweight: a young Michael Gove got his big break in a Channel 4 comedy called A Stab in the Dark. Rather what the DfE was trying to do to OCR.
• This article was amended on 9 May 2014. The earlier version referred to the "decision to include My Booky Wook alongside Animal Farm and Twelfth Night".