Marks and Sparks Fly Due To Low Quality of Educational Output Says Sir Stuart Rose
Alistair Owens www.keen2learn.co.uk
Last month Sir Terry Leahy of Tesco made similar remarks to Sir Stuart Rose of Marks and Spencer’s when he spoke at the CBI conference yesterday. They both agree; the performance of our education system is turning out school leavers and graduates unfit for employment.
The chain reaction continues. Employers criticise the output of school leavers and graduates. Universities criticise secondary schools – who criticise primary schools – who criticise SAT’s and targets.
Despite billions of pounds invested in the schooling programme over the past decade we are still letting our children and ultimately the economy down. The educational programme, despite the advance of technology is unfit for purpose in its present form. We are collectively guilty of failing generations of our children. And we are relying on them to fare well in a now global market. The competition will become intense. We could loose out immensely just as our economic destiny needs a boost.
What is the answer? The government have failed to introduce a cohesive programme that works. Teachers have become stressed and moral sapped. New schemes, SAT’s and targets have come and largely gone. In their wake a trail of destruction. Time to hand education back to the teaching resources that know intimately what works and what does not. No great shock as to who they are. Head Teachers and their team of teachers have been educating children for centuries, and we need them now more than ever to get us out of this mess.
