the government's failure to manage BTecs and T-levels
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- The Department of Education is presiding over utter chaos and failing to demonstrate, by example, that thinking ahead is important. That we should PLAN our work, our submissions, our schedule, our term and our year.. It is a disgrace.
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Bring back City and Guilds.
I have a BTec national diploma. It was a total waste of a good sheet of paper. They should have brought in a German style full and complete technical education system like Kenny Baker wanted in the 80s but it keeps being shot down by Oxbridge PPE morons due to snobbery. How come everyone with a degree thinks they know about education? It’s like if every driver thought they knew everything about how an internal combustion engine works.
It is certainly true that if this were happening with A-Levels, we would be hearing a lot about it. Whereas this is the first I've heard about it?
As much as I dislike the man and his vision for how to solve the problem, Dominic Cummings' diagnosis of how useless government and civil service have become was correct. We can't even do simple things like building a road, organise exams or put out an online form anymore. Completely useless bureaucrats who can barely keep running the little we have, but have 0 ability or motivation to attempt to improve anything. Schools understaffed, under equipped and under budgeted, a collapsing NHS, armed forces that are so poorly equipped that we couldn't even deploy and field one coherent division in case of war. Roads in disrepair, unaffordable housing for young people, universities running out of funds, highest taxation levels ever, high levels of violent crime. This country is in a complete death spiral I am afraid. Britain has rebecome the sick man of Europe, ironically going back to what it once was before it joined the EU in the 70s.
Have you quite finished ? Where is the fire in your belly ?
@@californiadreamin8423My “fire in the belly” is about doing all I can to offer my family a good life, pay my taxes and help the community if and when I can. Beyond that, no amount of fire in my belly is going to even make a dent into these problems. That’s for the government to reign in and I’m afraid they can’t.
Totally agree with you. May I add the lack of engineers and scientists.
We lack the folks to make the UK prosper.
Mind you, I'm biased more to the 70s common market than pre - brexit.
@@MikA-db2 I my self am in the technology - scientific field so I couldn't agree with you more. I feel like people from professions such as ours which are so dilligently judged on results and data are horrified by the mess we are seeing. Because none of it has any data whatsoever to back it up!
@@californiadreamin8423 The fire in my belly is about making sure my family does well, and I can help my community as much as I can... beyond that, you will find that the fire in my belly is mostly extinguished with Pub beer as I can't do anything to solve these macro problems, as much as I would like to be able to.
B Tecs are harder to fail than to pass.
That depends on what you're studying. Level 3 Engineering courses are quite demanding.
Another tory 'gift' for Labour to put right. It will take a long time to sort this out. Staff numbers, staff training and administration can bring down many an exam model.
The biggest problem I see with practical based subjects is what I would term "bench fees" There is a tool cost associated with hands on courses from metalwork to dentistry. Students can suddenly find themselves signing onto a course that requires added equipment funding. Over the last 20 yrs there have been some major technological shifts in all trades, but very little investment in new technology by employers. Investment in education should encompass an investment into future employability. So how and why would you train someone in a technology that employers are reticent to invest in, particularly when teachers and lecturers in practical based subjects tend to come from industry. It eventually becomes a bench fee issue that beggars the question of does anyone know what is needed. Good luck with any attempts to get a government to understanding that quandary.
I'm struggling to understand how BTEC Level 3 courses can be run remotely as on-line distance learning. BTEC put great emphasis on students being able to verbally convey the knowledge they have acquired to the rest of the group. This might take the form for example, of each student in the group taking turns at solving complex engineering equations, while also answering any questions on the process being put forward by the rest of the group. Additionally, the use of calculators was permitted at any time other than in exams, when they were forbidden. The only other aid allowed being a Log Table, which was as good as it got! How can any of these stringent requirements be applied to distance learning? One can only conclude that BTEC courses have been dumbed down significantly since the mid nineties.
Which government ?