BBC News - Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record
NASUWT General secretary Chris Keates said: "The coalition government must guarantee that all 16-18 year olds are guaranteed a place in education or training. This is the only way to avoid another lost generation of young people."
Look here, Mr Keates, some people are just too damn thick to train to do anything other than yomp around carrying heavy objects. Some of those are even too weak to lift heavy objects, and so are set to work sticking stickers on boxes or packaging stuff. What do you want? A national qualification for 'yomping about with heavy stuff'?
The whole point of a qualification or an education is that is sets you aside from the people who haven't got one and thereby gives an indication, no more or less, to any prospective employer, that you might actually be capable of doing the work he needs done. Once you hand it to everybody that purpose is lost.
Call me an elitist if you will, but I think this whole idea that every 16 to 18 year old can and must be given training is PC claptrap.
Then there's this;
Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls said claims that exams had got easier were "complete and utter nonsense" and said students were working harder and being better taught than in the past.
Of course, Mr Bollocks. New Labour have raised a generation of goldenballs who wouldn't think of wasting their youth on sex and drugs and rock and roll, or bikes, beer and birds in my case, no no, they are all diligently studying to get that highly desired place on an NVQ Level 1 Burger Flipping course, so they can all be part of some utopian society where everybody is happy and wealthy and pleasant all day.
And what's going on in Scotland?
Students aged 15 and 16 in Scotland take standard grade exams, and received their results in early August. The pass rate was similar to the previous year.
Has human evolution ground to a halt north of the border, the country that gave us Adam Smith, James Maxwell, Alexander Fleming, to name but a few? I don't think so; I suspect those nasty Scots, having got their own little governmenty thingy, are actually insisting on applying some sane standards to their education system, knowing that before long they'll profit from that.
FFS
NASUWT General secretary Chris Keates said: "The coalition government must guarantee that all 16-18 year olds are guaranteed a place in education or training. This is the only way to avoid another lost generation of young people."
Look here, Mr Keates, some people are just too damn thick to train to do anything other than yomp around carrying heavy objects. Some of those are even too weak to lift heavy objects, and so are set to work sticking stickers on boxes or packaging stuff. What do you want? A national qualification for 'yomping about with heavy stuff'?
The whole point of a qualification or an education is that is sets you aside from the people who haven't got one and thereby gives an indication, no more or less, to any prospective employer, that you might actually be capable of doing the work he needs done. Once you hand it to everybody that purpose is lost.
Call me an elitist if you will, but I think this whole idea that every 16 to 18 year old can and must be given training is PC claptrap.
Then there's this;
Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls said claims that exams had got easier were "complete and utter nonsense" and said students were working harder and being better taught than in the past.
Of course, Mr Bollocks. New Labour have raised a generation of goldenballs who wouldn't think of wasting their youth on sex and drugs and rock and roll, or bikes, beer and birds in my case, no no, they are all diligently studying to get that highly desired place on an NVQ Level 1 Burger Flipping course, so they can all be part of some utopian society where everybody is happy and wealthy and pleasant all day.
And what's going on in Scotland?
Students aged 15 and 16 in Scotland take standard grade exams, and received their results in early August. The pass rate was similar to the previous year.
Has human evolution ground to a halt north of the border, the country that gave us Adam Smith, James Maxwell, Alexander Fleming, to name but a few? I don't think so; I suspect those nasty Scots, having got their own little governmenty thingy, are actually insisting on applying some sane standards to their education system, knowing that before long they'll profit from that.
FFS
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