I'm very pleased to see this proposal fail miserably. Like the articles highlighted, it would just create a two-tier system. There was no room for more vocational qualifications that the GCSE can offer and that's just horribly unequal.
I do kinda agree about having one exam board though. Having multiple versions of the same paper is just silly? There should be a centralised, government run exam board that operates under the Department/Ministry (I can't remember which it is) of Education. I mean I sat the AQA version of the AS Level Psychology exam and the whole thing felt like a science paper in the way it was done. One of my friends however, is sitting the same exam but her one is administered by a different exam board (WJEC), and her paper is completely different in that the whole thing is completely essay focused. It's absurd. I don't understand how the same qualification in one topic can be awarded to pupils like that if we all learn different skills as per what the exam requires.
