Who would want their qualification to be equated to Thatcher's wretched GCSE, anyway?
More broadly, technical qualifications ought not to be compared with academic qualifications, or vice versa. The Honours Degree system is no good at teaching the skill trades, and nor are schools. Why should they be?
We need world class apprenticeships, world class technical colleges, and a return to uncompromising academic excellence in schools and universities.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Bring back the polytechnics!
ReplyDeleteDidn't do me any harm.
http://protectthepope.com/?p=4624 David, Here is a piece on the Catholic education system. A Catholic is proposing that mass Catholic education should come to an end.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think?
I am nowhere near that pessimistic. But I do agree about the present state of RE in Catholic schools. However, that would not be difficult in principle to remedy. It would be a matter of willingness to take the necessarily drastic, but perfectly simple, action.
ReplyDelete