Quality Suffers In Exam Performance
The flood of joy, tears and recrimination has emerged with the GCSE level results. This annual trauma generates a philosophical dilemma as we seem to fail to learn from previous results.
Targets and points appear as the driving force. Concern that too many easy subjects are pursued to gain points that universities discount; that languages are in decline, and Head Teachers opinion seem overwhelmed. Yet we still fail to find a common goal that will benefit children, schools and the UK at large.
Even the media appear exhausted in describing the situation. The danger looms that the fire will quickly burn out as too many have fanned it and walked away. Why aren’t universities given the responsibility to sort out the quality and quantity of entrants. As academics they speak the language of schooling and are surely ideal referees.
Head Teachers must be given more direct authority over the production of well schooled children. The money saved in the current amazing infrastructure that is going nowhere could be reinvested to provide world leadership in schooling quality.
If you got the GCSE results you wanted you may care to see the list of “A†soft subjects that Cambridge discounts:-
• Accounting
• Art and Design
• Business Studies
• Communication Studies
• Dance
• Design and Technology
• Drama/Theatre Studies
• Film Studies
• Health and Social Care
• Home Economics
• Information and Communication Technology
• Leisure Studies
• Media Studies
• Music Technology
• Performance Studies
• Performing Arts
• Photography
• Physical Education
• Sports Studies
• Travel and Tourism
Alistair Owens keen2lean
