"An Education System That Needs Fixing" | Chris McGovern On Rishi Sunak’s A-Level Reform
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2023
- Chair for the Campaign For Real Education, Chris McGovern discusses Rishi Sunak replacing A-levels and T-levels with a new qualification for all school leavers in England.
The Prime Minister told the Conservative party conference in Manchester THAT he would merge A levels and technical T-levels into a new qualification called the Advanced British Standard (ABS) aimed at creating the “best education system in the western world”.
McGovern says: "I'm broadly in favour as Rishi Sunak is facing up with the realities. We can't compete with the rest of the world if we don't do something".
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How are kids going to learn anything when most of the kids don’t speak English 🏴
Really, That's a sweeping statement?
And doesn't apply to the rest of the country.
A far bigger problem is that most A-level teachers don't know their subjects that well!
@@DavidGetling Most A-level teachers are products of the same dumbed down education system themselves.
For a start get teaching Reading, Writing and Arithmetics, BRITISH HISTORY & WORLD HISTORY etc with NO WOKEISM &, NO GENDER TRANS until the children are at least attending secondary school!
This will be just like what happened with replacing O levels with GCSEs - more dumbing down in our education system.
If Gordon Brown had won in 2010 his stated intention was to break every GCSE up into easily digestible, bite sized modules like Blair had done with “A-levels”.
Is anyone really fooled by this? Replacing A-levels is like repapering and painting your house, because it is suffering from serious subsidence. A-levels are fine. It's the quality of those teaching them and the entitled attitude of many students that's the real problem.
For the past 10 years, since returning from teaching overseas, I have been privately tutoring A-level maths, further maths, chemistry and physics. I can more or less handle almost anything on sight that students need help with in these subject. So why aren't I in a school? The main reason is that I would have to be paid at the top of the main teaching pay scale, and most schools won't pay that kind of money: not that it's that much. The other reasons are that I am not prepared to do unnecessary admin, be bullied into working vastly excessive hours, or put up with the appalling behaviour that so many teachers accept as a normal part of the job.
A-levels have been dumbed down beyond recognition.
A grade ‘A’ in 2023 is equivalent to a grade ‘D’ in the early 1980s.
You don't need a teacher in the class-room for 17+ year olds. They could have maths Professors teaching on-line. The standard of teaching couldn't be higher. I don't understand why this hasn't been done in the past. We DO have the technology and young people are very tech savvy.
It has long been recognised (and one of the key reasons why countries like South Korea, Germany & Japan have been so successful) that long-term fixing and ring-fencing of an optimum allocation of education budget per pupil for schools (similar to what Gordon Brown invested in when he has PM before Cameron slashed it as part of austerity measures) improves the lives and wellbeing of not only children, but the long-term prospects of the country as a whole, including economic growth, entrepreneurship, innovation, employment, business success, etc.
Not only that, it has been shown to reduce long term Government expenditure on crime, unemployment, police, courts, prisons, poor health, obesity, etc. far beyond what the investment costs.
Having an agile and fully-funded world class education system (with healthy school meals for all) is a cornerstone to a nation's long-term success !
Gordon Brown dumbed down education.
Haven't successive governments had enough time to 'fix' education? There must be an election coming as this political football is being kicked around again. I'm a retired physics teacher that looked after the development of a great many student teachers. The pay is dismal compared to other professions, the hours are ridiculously long (sometimes over 80 hours per week), and retention of young teachers a real problem due to the workload. Time is spent unnecessarily reinventing the wheel and writing schemes of work according to the latest fad. What the pupils wanted were imaginative and interesting lessons that captured their imaginations and developed understanding. What the teachers need is a proper professional status and the financial benefits to show it. If you calculated the hourly rate for teaching it's not that great. Finally, a great many student teachers were people that fancied a career change thinking it would be easy, but got a rude awakening.