iGCSE science - not for everyone

Here is a question for you to think about: How do you think chemistry should be taught? Give it some serious consideration and have some answers ready, because in a climate where high-profile opinions on educational standards, no matter how authoritative, receive the oxygen of full media publicity, we need to be on our mettle.  

The new science GCSEs are about six months old. While it would be a gross exaggeration to say they are on the ropes at the end of round one, I sense the judges may not yet be putting them ahead on points. Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial College London, made a few deft jabs, but they seem to have been glancing blows. However, having read last issue's Endpoint by Chas McCaw (Educ. Chem., 2007, 44 (1), 32), I see the iGCSE is being hailed as the out-right winner.