There is a crisis at the heart of Britain’s education system, as decades of underfunding, an obsession with meaningless metrics, and inflated exam results are leaving an entire generation disengaged.
Agree , I don’t know a serious business owner (SME is my area of knowledge ) who doesn’t . Vocational training , apprenticeships and the like have a very big place in the future . Education , particularly FE , is an industry with a lot of vested interests in keeping it as it is I believe . Trying to get well run apprenticeship schemes IMHO is nigh on impossible , certainly in my sector .
What I’m not sure about is how ‘the system’ can change . Strikes me a bit like the NHS , it’s not quite broken enough yet to let radical effective change in .
Great article, unfortunately your common sense solution would come under fire from " my son (thick as a brick) is off to uni, after his gap year" parents, and pseudo intellectuals.
Agree , I don’t know a serious business owner (SME is my area of knowledge ) who doesn’t . Vocational training , apprenticeships and the like have a very big place in the future . Education , particularly FE , is an industry with a lot of vested interests in keeping it as it is I believe . Trying to get well run apprenticeship schemes IMHO is nigh on impossible , certainly in my sector .
What I’m not sure about is how ‘the system’ can change . Strikes me a bit like the NHS , it’s not quite broken enough yet to let radical effective change in .
Great article, unfortunately your common sense solution would come under fire from " my son (thick as a brick) is off to uni, after his gap year" parents, and pseudo intellectuals.
The most important thing is thinking which is virtually ignored in the system.