In further measures, Mr Gove plans to overhaul the exam league tables system amid evidence that schools are attempting to boost rankings by entering pupils for non-academic courses such as ‘personal effectiveness’.
Meanwhile a new school curriculum – scheduled for introduction in September 2013 – will give renewed attention to core knowledge and concepts, key events in history and the classics of English literature.
Next week’s White Paper follows claims by Mr Gove that the credibility of the country’s exam system has been weakened by constant change and political interference under Labour.
He has been particularly scathing about science GCSEs, which now include questions such as ‘which is healthier – a battered sausage or a grilled fish?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Return of the Three R's
And not before time.
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ReplyDeleteI hope this means that Britain's role in WW11, PM Churchill, and the Holocaust, will once again be taught in British schools.
In fact, neither a sausage which has been batterd (poor thing) or a fish which has been grilled (rubber hoses in the back room, perhaps?) can be considered to be terribly healthy.
ReplyDeleteDWT- The battered sausage will be eligible for government sponsored counseling, so presumably it will be healthier.
ReplyDeleteDWT, LOL! Good one. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope America follows suit, but I'm not optimistic. It's all about money. Educational institutions have to push little Johnny up to the next level to pass "go" and collect their $200. Whether or not little Johnny can convert a fraction into a decimal or conjugate a verb is irrelevant. At the end of the line, slap a bachelor's degree on his forehead and shove him out into the world, where he can earn big money working for...the government.
Cynical, aren't I? Heh.
Alphie, perfect! :))
ReplyDeleteI hope America follows suit as well, lady red. I've slowly become aware of the fact that it's all about obtaining government funding, and not so much about actually teaching the kids and doing what's best for them.
ReplyDeleteI have seen this happen several times as the school has tried desperately to have my son, and some of his friends, studied, analyzed and classified as having some sort of learning disability just obtian special funding.
"Ending this will put Mr Gove on a collision course with the unions, but he said: ‘I would like to change the culture so that it is more routine and normal for teachers to be observing and learning from each other.’"
ReplyDeleteGee, why would they want to do that?
Alphie, that stuff goes on every day, at every level of education. It's horrific. Is it any wonder that so many families are choosing to home school?
ReplyDeleteThat did it for us, lady red. I know without a doubt my son would be labeled as ADHD, when the issue is that he's a BOY, for goodness sake. He needs to go run around for awhile, then he'll behave.
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