| We really need to improve educational policy in this country 09:50 - Jan 10 with 1602 views | Guthrum |
Unfortunately, these are the same people who are designing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-e
Turning schools from places where children learn stuff to exam passing machines for the benefit of stats and league tables has been one of the greatest evils of recent decades. Not to mention the damage to teachers' morale. |  |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 11:33 - Jan 10 with 1475 views | ChampionsofInnsbruck |
I agree 100% .They have been able to pass the tests but it's left a large amount of youngsters, even with degrees, unemployable as well. You have people leaving school and Uni without the most basic of skills, and it is getting worse year on year with employers having to structure their own training around the lack of skills these kids are leaving education with. They have been totally let down by our system.
Also verbal communication with people coming into our business under 20 is terrible, the lack of social development is alarming and that's due to social media. We have to start from the ground up with people, and it costs business's like ours a fortune. |  | | |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 11:38 - Jan 10 with 1462 views | Keno |
Very true Guffers
Although numerary seems to be taught well nowadays. In a recent survey 35% of people thought there were problems in this area while the other 75% say they were happy |  |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:03 - Jan 10 with 1409 views | EdwardStone |
And despite the various reforms, league tables etc
Still 50% of schools are below average
It's a disgrace |  | | |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:06 - Jan 10 with 1388 views | Cotty |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:03 - Jan 10 by EdwardStone |
And despite the various reforms, league tables etc
Still 50% of schools are below average
It's a disgrace |
Ha, Gove (or another Tory goon?) did actually say something along these lines once didn't he? |  | | |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:08 - Jan 10 with 1382 views | Cotty |
My 6 year old knows much more about grammar than I do. At least, the vocabulary around it at any rate. What a complete waste of time. | | | |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:15 - Jan 10 with 1336 views | NthQldITFC |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:08 - Jan 10 by Cotty |
My 6 year old knows much more about grammar than I do. At least, the vocabulary around it at any rate. What a complete waste of time. |
Well it's true that many children spend a lot of time with their grandparents these days, so not really a surprise that your 6 year old knows more about her than you do. |  |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:25 - Jan 10 with 1304 views | Ryorry |
Heard a radio report this morning saying that less well off uk households ((20% iirc) either don’t have the broadband capacity for kids to finish assignments - or even exams - online; and/or the ability to give their kids the devices to do them or their homework on. |  |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 15:33 - Jan 10 with 1170 views | BlueBadger |
And speaking of Tories and the inability to think critically.
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 15:58 - Jan 10 with 1137 views | cbower |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:25 - Jan 10 by Ryorry |
Heard a radio report this morning saying that less well off uk households ((20% iirc) either don’t have the broadband capacity for kids to finish assignments - or even exams - online; and/or the ability to give their kids the devices to do them or their homework on. |
Where I teach there is an almost evangelical insistence that homework is set on line, often using ready made programmes that are self marking. I have long arued against it myself as whilst most do have internet access, the vast majority is through their phone. Completing homework on such a tiny screen is ridiculous. The more affluent have their laptops and tablets so, as usual, they're ok! |  |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 16:44 - Jan 10 with 1074 views | iamatractorboy |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 11:33 - Jan 10 by ChampionsofInnsbruck |
I agree 100% .They have been able to pass the tests but it's left a large amount of youngsters, even with degrees, unemployable as well. You have people leaving school and Uni without the most basic of skills, and it is getting worse year on year with employers having to structure their own training around the lack of skills these kids are leaving education with. They have been totally let down by our system.
Also verbal communication with people coming into our business under 20 is terrible, the lack of social development is alarming and that's due to social media. We have to start from the ground up with people, and it costs business's like ours a fortune. |
*businesses
(Sorry, given the context, I couldn't resist!!) |  | | |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 16:48 - Jan 10 with 1067 views | DJR |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 15:58 - Jan 10 by cbower |
Where I teach there is an almost evangelical insistence that homework is set on line, often using ready made programmes that are self marking. I have long arued against it myself as whilst most do have internet access, the vast majority is through their phone. Completing homework on such a tiny screen is ridiculous. The more affluent have their laptops and tablets so, as usual, they're ok! |
The problem with the primary education system that Gove put in place, given what my daughter who has just started as a teacher tells me, is that kids are expected to run before they can walk.
Of course, the brightest will have no problem with running, the middle will be able to jog, but the disadvantaged struggle to walk and are left behind from an early age and never catch up.
And the pandemic has made things much worse for those who don't have parents who had the time or ability and resources to step up to the plate when schools were off. There are also severe issues with social norms and the like for those entering primary school because they have missed a good chunk of pre-school but that appears to be an issue that affects all children. [Post edited 10 Jan 2024 17:42]
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 16:49 - Jan 10 with 1056 views | Help |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 11:38 - Jan 10 by Keno |
Very true Guffers
Although numerary seems to be taught well nowadays. In a recent survey 35% of people thought there were problems in this area while the other 75% say they were happy |
Numeracy? |  |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 16:51 - Jan 10 with 1046 views | Help |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 12:15 - Jan 10 by NthQldITFC |
Well it's true that many children spend a lot of time with their grandparents these days, so not really a surprise that your 6 year old knows more about her than you do. |
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 17:21 - Jan 10 with 1014 views | mylittletown |
The decision by Gove and his fool of an assistant, Dominic Cummings, to scrap Building Schools for the Future, as soon as the Tories got into power in 2010 was idiotic, even by the dim witted standards of this government [Post edited 10 Jan 2024 23:15]
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| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 17:30 - Jan 10 with 983 views | factual_blue |
| We really need to improve educational policy in this country on 11:38 - Jan 10 by Keno |
Very true Guffers
Although numerary seems to be taught well nowadays. In a recent survey 35% of people thought there were problems in this area while the other 75% say they were happy |
The other 10% said 'don't know'. |  |
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