Quote of the day
“”We don’t want to see excuses about poor performance”
- Ed Balls talking about Gordon Brown the new plans to replace failing schools with Academies (even though Academies are no longer proper independent Academies like the ones Blair created because they are now controlled by the Local Education Authority and no longer have flexibility over their curriculum and staffing since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, because he’s a complete control freak)
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I enjoyed the claim that Labour had a track record of success in educational improvements!
More pupils passing easier exams is the road to ruin!
I find it absolutely astonishing that Labour have the nerve to claim that education has got better since 1997. The exams have got easier, the marking has got easier, students are given unlimited chances to resit A-level exams (and soon will be given the same option for GCSEs) and as if all that wasn’t bad enough, the qualifications and syllabuses are useless anyway.
A few things for the Conservatives to sort out, me thinks….
As a product (largely) of edukayshun under Labour, I don’t know if I can have an opinion without inordinate bias. That being said, I am soon to receive my results for a degree which has put me into vast levels of debt and thanks to the Labour watering-down of degrees will not count for as much in the workplace as it would have done 10 years ago.
My secondary school was a shining example of a Boys Grammar, complete with entrance exams. I hated it due to my lack of respect for authority, but looking back I have to admire the abilities of many of the teachers and the level of education I received. Two years after I joined, the school was forced by the government to alter its admissions policy, and the result was an instant and noticeable difference in the attitude and behaviour of the students. ‘Down the pan’ is the only really suitable phrase I can come up with for it.
I haven’t been back, but I truly worry about what I’d find if I did. I know they’ve already removed the beautiful tree-lined frontage of the school in order to build a new arts block, and sold off large parts of the fields to property developers. I don’t think there’s any repairing the damage done to our education system as it currently stands, which seems to me to be a real shame.