Dipping your fingers into the education pot?
29 January 2012, 12:21 PM
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Dipping your fingers into the education pot?
And coming up with them covered in gold?
What a GREAT idea, eh?
Well THAT seems to be what the Tories want.
No wonder business is queuing up to lead the new academies, since each school they take on must give them up to 5% of their budget.
And for a medium sized primary, that could be £50,000. MORE THAN A TEACHER!
So...great idea. Tory supporters get money.
Schools lose teachers and other staff.
And of course, standards are BOUND to rise....aren't they?
What a GREAT idea, eh?
Well THAT seems to be what the Tories want.
No wonder business is queuing up to lead the new academies, since each school they take on must give them up to 5% of their budget.
And for a medium sized primary, that could be £50,000. MORE THAN A TEACHER!
So...great idea. Tory supporters get money.
Schools lose teachers and other staff.
And of course, standards are BOUND to rise....aren't they?
29 January 2012, 03:54 PM
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The new Tory idea that ALL schools should become academies "in order to raise standards.
They will be "in partnership" with various businesses, who will receive up to 5% of the school's budget.
These businesses can take on more than one school at a time.....
And exactly what the businesses will do "to raise standards" is unclear.....
Smacks of allowing your mates a dip into the education budget, to me
They will be "in partnership" with various businesses, who will receive up to 5% of the school's budget.
These businesses can take on more than one school at a time.....
And exactly what the businesses will do "to raise standards" is unclear.....
Smacks of allowing your mates a dip into the education budget, to me
29 January 2012, 07:17 PM
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If that is the case then it will be as badly handled as private business running hospitals. I'm in the north at the moment and the stories of Balfour Beaty running the local hospitals is just horrific.
29 January 2012, 07:49 PM
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Big mistake to get rid of grammar schools and an entry exam such as the old 11 plus. The right pupils got the chances that they were most likely to make get the full benefit of.
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30 January 2012, 01:35 PM
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We still have Grammar schools in N.Ireland.
The 11plus test has been done away with here.
Some old bag called Caitriona Ruane said that the test was not fair
So now instead of doing 1 test in your own school, you now have to do 3 separate tests(at weekends), and not in the comfort of your own school.
The 11plus test has been done away with here.
Some old bag called Caitriona Ruane said that the test was not fair
So now instead of doing 1 test in your own school, you now have to do 3 separate tests(at weekends), and not in the comfort of your own school.
30 January 2012, 07:50 PM
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Or for boys, who develop later than girls.
My mate, who sadly passed away last summer, failed his eleven-plus.
He struggled to 7 GCE "O" levels DESPITE the secondary school he was in, then went on to do OND AND "A" Levels at the same time, before getting a good engineering degree, and going on to become one of the top engineers on the Scunthorpe Tata Steel Plant.
But he FAILED his eleven plus....so by most people's reckoning, wasn't intelligent?
No wonder it had to go......discredited.
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30 January 2012, 10:43 PM
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Rather than throw more money at schools to do 'more of the same, but better',
, or convert them to academies, we should concentrate on what they're actually taught. IMHO we should just get the 1950's syllabus and adopt it almost outright. Just add the +50 years of facts for history and geography + a few others and we're there. No need to teach 'ICT' 'cos all that happens is that kids learn a product, much better to give them touch typing lessons.Oh, and the teachers. We haven't sacked any for years so they must all be excellent at their jobs so they'll have no problems whatsoever with it ....
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31 January 2012, 12:25 PM
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Well..............except that it made no allowance for kids who developed later than others.
Or for boys, who develop later than girls.
My mate, who sadly passed away last summer, failed his eleven-plus.
He struggled to 7 GCE "O" levels DESPITE the secondary school he was in, then went on to do OND AND "A" Levels at the same time, before getting a good engineering degree, and going on to become one of the top engineers on the Scunthorpe Tata Steel Plant.
But he FAILED his eleven plus....so by most people's reckoning, wasn't intelligent?
No wonder it had to go......discredited.
Or for boys, who develop later than girls.
My mate, who sadly passed away last summer, failed his eleven-plus.
He struggled to 7 GCE "O" levels DESPITE the secondary school he was in, then went on to do OND AND "A" Levels at the same time, before getting a good engineering degree, and going on to become one of the top engineers on the Scunthorpe Tata Steel Plant.
But he FAILED his eleven plus....so by most people's reckoning, wasn't intelligent?
No wonder it had to go......discredited.
Trouble was at the time was that it was not possible to send every child to a grammar school so they had to have some kind of a filter.
The answer of course was to improve the standard of education all round, but in recent times standards have been dropped even further for appearances' sake.
We now have the situation where they are all dipping out!
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31 January 2012, 01:01 PM
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It's like schools wanting to ban sports day because the fat kids who can't run feel left out and let down.
What a load of bollox, I wasn't fat at school but I was just rubbish at sports and didn't care if I was in sports day or not.
31 January 2012, 01:14 PM
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