Thursday, December 28, 2006

Education goes forward to the past.

The Telegraph is reporting that the most gifted pupils are to be given vouchers to enable them 'buy' additional tuition. Don't I recall a similar system which featured something called an 11+ exam and Grammar Schools in the bad old days before comprehensives. There are a couple of other innovative wheezes I've just this second thought up. How about apprenticeships where young people can learn practical skills on the job, and what about turning all those new universities into polytechnics and teaching science and engineering instead of psychology, social science and media studies. No, probably too revolutionary.
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2 comments:

kinglear said...

I've only just managed to be able to read your words of wisdom again. Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, we have left this rather too late - the Chinese Indians, Poles, Czechs even the Americans and French for God's sake provide streaming so that "clever" children can progress faster, and avoid being disruptive. Only UK universities have to take dumbos to bring down the general level of excellence. And unfortunately all the apprenticeships are now superfluous, as all the said Poles Czechs etc have already done theirs at home before coming here to earn megabucks.The complacency and arrogance of this government is breathtaking

4:38 PM
Peter Porcupine said...

Glad to hear from you again. Since I wrote that I've seen it mentioned that the government is going to give money to parents so they can pay for extra tuition outside the state system. Perhaps private enterprise does work in education after all.

5:28 PM

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