UK education sixth in global ranking

Radiantsoul

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

You can't blame state sector teachers entirely, though as with any profession there must be good, bad, and indifferent among them.

The primary blame must go to the wooly, leftie, arrogant education so-called experts who have been allowed to hijack strategic thinking about education under governments of both colours for a couple of generations.

A lot of teachers must be demoralised by the chop and change in recommended methods, the inability to impose reasonable discipline, and the ludicrously over-protective and risk-averse child protection and health & safety regulations which put everything into a straitjacket.

A similar bunch of arrogant, leftie, busybody, know-nothings has hijacked management of the criminal justice system over a similar period of time, resulting in a demoralised police force and less protection for the public against crime, with no offsetting benefit in rehabilitation of criminals.

Crime rates have fallen over the past two decades, although nobody really knows why.

There probably is too much inference and change within teaching. Hundreds of pages of documents per year coming out of Whitehall cannot be a good situation and there is probably a case for a pause on change.

On the other hand I get the feeling that lessons are better planned now than when I went to school, bullying is much less tolerated and the rebuilding of schools has changed many from leaky huts that I learned in.

dryhat

neilem wrote: »

Pearson is a parent company of Edexcel, not the most neutral report...

I can't believe it took 27 posts for this to be pointed out.

They are also big textbook publishers.

It is in their interests to big-up the education system by producing reports like this.

Radiantsoul

dryhat wrote: »

I can't believe it took 27 posts for this to be pointed out.

They are also big textbook publishers.

It is in their interests to big-up the education system by producing reports like this.

Is it really likely they would have fudged a report though. They have a worldwide publishing empire, why risk that to produce a report that is unlikely to increase their sales in a material way?

PaulF81

Who was the survey commissioned by?the union of lefties and socialists?

PaulF81

Radiantsoul wrote: »

Crime rates have fallen over the past two decades, although nobody really knows why.

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Probably wide scale sex education and the use of contraception by the great unwashed.

Roe vs wade resulted in large scale drops in crime in the us around 16-18 years after the case was upheld.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect

Radiantsoul

PaulF81 wrote: »

Probably wide scale sex education and the use of contraception by the great unwashed.

Roe vs wade resulted in large scale drops in crime in the us around 16-18 years after the case was upheld.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect

Well the Freakonomics conclusion is interesting, but fairly controversial. Abortion was legalised in the UK in five years before the USA and yet crime rates in both countries fell from the mid 90s.