| Plans to change GCSE's 19:31 - Oct 15 with 3210 views | Catullus |
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/
Despite educations experts having very large doubts about this, and despite the majority in their consultation being against it, the Senedd are ploughing on regardless.
This is why the Senedd gets criticised. They are no better than Westminster, once they have decided it's what they want, it doesn't matter what the people want or what other experts say, they do it anyway. Surely pushing on with this right now is a mistake? |  |
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 20:15 - Oct 16 with 688 views | onehunglow |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 18:27 - Oct 16 by jackrabbit |
My comment about teachers hating him was a flippant throw-away. I mean no disrespect to teachers - i’ve been there and done it. I know what it takes. But Gove didn’t go after teachers - he went after standards and course content and his influence was a positive one. |
You're a good poster Sir.I like your style
I had two kids one of whom went to Grammar and the other to Comp and not the best one at that on reputation.
Both have done well;one a senior figure in one of the world's largest companies,the other -the Comp girl-who turned down several Uni places to get straight into the work place and now has her own business which we helped set up.
I see education and specifically parent support a key.Those who fail do so often becaue of a lack of a father figure ,a guiding light and some motivation to do well in education. | |
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 02:31 - Oct 17 with 651 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 13:26 - Oct 16 by jackrabbit |
Michael Gove was an excellent Education Secretary. He must have been - teachers hated him!
He tackled grade inflation which was becoming farcical, and in my subject, Maths, he concentrated on getting the basics taught - the building blocks of arithmetic , times tables , addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and the basics of algebra, trig and geometry. It’s no good teaching cumulative frequency, percentages, or quadratic factorisation for example, if kids can’t add, subtract, multiply and divide for example.
As a maths coach I have seen and attempted to remedy some horrendous skill shortages in kids who are shortly to face national exams like GCSE. I had a lot of respect for what Gove (and Nick Gibb) were trying to do. He took a similar approach to the teaching of English.
But of course popular prejudice has condemned him as useless. Far from it. |
Gove needs professional help, not undeserved praise. |  |
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 02:40 - Oct 17 with 649 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 16:23 - Oct 16 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Do I think they have done a good job of educating English children?
Compared to Wales... absolutely. The education of Welsh children has been disgraceful since education was devolved to Wales.
"The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests taken by teenagers across the world in 2009 and published a year later in 2010, had a considerable impact on Wales’ school system and can be considered a major turning point for Welsh education post-devolution. A measure of the knowledge and core skills of 15-year-olds as they near the end of their compulsory education, PISA showed student performance in Wales to be significantly below the rest of the UK and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in reading, mathematics and science (NFER 2010). The attainment of Welsh 15-year-olds in all three domains was lower than that recorded previously in 2006 (when Wales participated in its own right in PISA for the first time) and Leighton Andrews, who replaced Hutt as education minister in late 2009, described the scores as a ‘wake-up call to a complacent system’ (Dauncey 2016)."
https://link.springer.com/arti
Welsh pupils have tested below their English counterparts in every PISA category since 2006 as well, by the way...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
It is quite frankly disgraceful that it continues to this day. Let's hope the latest curriculum reform helps close the gap. |
Wales was made so poor by Westmonster that we qualified for EU structural funding.
Children in poor families tend to achieve less academically than middle class kids.
Clearly not all.
Your position that out of all the nations of Europe, then Wales alone and uniquely cannot educate its own children is deeply worrying. Look up Stockholm syndrome.
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 15:05 - Oct 17 with 608 views | Gwyn737 |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 02:40 - Oct 17 by Kilkennyjack |
Wales was made so poor by Westmonster that we qualified for EU structural funding.
Children in poor families tend to achieve less academically than middle class kids.
Clearly not all.
Your position that out of all the nations of Europe, then Wales alone and uniquely cannot educate its own children is deeply worrying. Look up Stockholm syndrome.
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School funding for Wales comes from the block grant so theoretically can be passed down to schools at the 115% margin from the Barnett formula.
In practice this would mean that an average 2 form entry primary school in Wales would have £300k more in their budget than an English counterpart. | | | |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 16:46 - Oct 17 with 597 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 02:40 - Oct 17 by Kilkennyjack |
Wales was made so poor by Westmonster that we qualified for EU structural funding.
Children in poor families tend to achieve less academically than middle class kids.
Clearly not all.
Your position that out of all the nations of Europe, then Wales alone and uniquely cannot educate its own children is deeply worrying. Look up Stockholm syndrome.
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I see you are once again changing the argument to suit the only straw you were able to partially clutch.
I never said that "Wales alone and uniquely cannot educate its own children".
I said that children in England receive a better education than those unfortunate enough to be brought up in Wales.
Welsh Government clearly agree, as they signed off on yet another curriculum overhaul a few years ago which comes is in the process of being applied to all schools in Wales. Why? To try and close the gap to England and the other home nations.
Even Welsh Government concede that Wales' education system is a disgrace and fails Welsh children, hence the overhaul. |  |
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 20:49 - Oct 17 with 567 views | Flashberryjack |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 16:46 - Oct 17 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
I see you are once again changing the argument to suit the only straw you were able to partially clutch.
I never said that "Wales alone and uniquely cannot educate its own children".
I said that children in England receive a better education than those unfortunate enough to be brought up in Wales.
Welsh Government clearly agree, as they signed off on yet another curriculum overhaul a few years ago which comes is in the process of being applied to all schools in Wales. Why? To try and close the gap to England and the other home nations.
Even Welsh Government concede that Wales' education system is a disgrace and fails Welsh children, hence the overhaul. |
Wales is set to become the first UK nation to make teaching of Black, Asian and minority ethnic histories compulsory, well done Wales. |  |
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 21:13 - Oct 17 with 559 views | Catullus |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 20:49 - Oct 17 by Flashberryjack |
Wales is set to become the first UK nation to make teaching of Black, Asian and minority ethnic histories compulsory, well done Wales. |
When we teach history we should teach everything of the era talked about regradless of colour, race, religion etc.
When they do black history are they going to talk about Mansa Musa and his role in slavery? When they talk about Arabic history are they to tell of the Arabs who took thousands of Africans over a much larger time period than white slavers did?
What about the transportation of slaves from Africa to Asia that was going on thousands of years before white people joined the slave trade? There's evidence that is was happening as far back as 2900BCE.
Whatever they teach in History it should at least be the truth regardless of the skin colour.. | |
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| Plans to change GCSE's on 17:12 - Oct 18 with 530 views | controversial_jack |
| Plans to change GCSE's on 21:13 - Oct 17 by Catullus |
When we teach history we should teach everything of the era talked about regradless of colour, race, religion etc.
When they do black history are they going to talk about Mansa Musa and his role in slavery? When they talk about Arabic history are they to tell of the Arabs who took thousands of Africans over a much larger time period than white slavers did?
What about the transportation of slaves from Africa to Asia that was going on thousands of years before white people joined the slave trade? There's evidence that is was happening as far back as 2900BCE.
Whatever they teach in History it should at least be the truth regardless of the skin colour.. |
I agree. There should be a chapter at most about black history. | | | |
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