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What exactly does BIg Business want from schools?
Big Business is always carping about exam results. Not enough kids take Maths A Level. Not enough can do simple mental arithmetic. School leavers can’t write letters, reports, professional standard emails. Their spelling is atrocious, their grammar worse. They don’t know how to behave in a professional environment. They could do with more vocational skills.
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Uproar over GCSE English grades
After 2 decades of rising grade percentages this years exam grades have come as a big shock to pupils,parents and teachers alike. BBC News reports (28/08/2012) that Head teachers are pressing for this summer's English GCSEs to be regraded amid a row over grade boundaries.
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Top A Level Results Down This Year
There has been a fall in the proportion of A-levels awarded an A or A* grade for the first time in over two decades. This summer's results show 26.6% of A-level entries achieved the top two grades - down from 27% last year.
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A’levels: Top Grades Down for the First Time in 20 Years
A’level results were published today, with 357,915 students securing a place at university. However, the number of students obtaining the top grades of A or A* has fallen by 0.4%. This
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New Numeracy Plans are Flawed
National Numeracy has attacked the new plans by Education Minister, Michael Gove, as flawed and ‘undeliverable’, saying they rely too much on rote learning. The new plans, expected to commence in September 2014 require children to know their times tables by the age of nine.
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London State Schools the Best in the Country
According to a new study published this week, London state schools are now the best in the country. This is a marked difference from data from previous years’ data which suggested that many London state schools were struggling to meet minimum standards.
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Schools Perpetuate a Culture of Low Expectations
The government looks to have done something good recently in terms of education policy. After saying that there were ‘perverse incentives to over-identify children as having SEN’, the number of children labelled as having special educational needs has fallen by almost 90,000 in just two years, official figures have revealed.
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The Drive for O Level Type Exams Continues
More pupils than ever before are taking iGCSEs, an exam which examines at the end of 2 years rather than throughout the year. This backs up Michael Gove’s plan to reintroduce O Level type courses to the UK which also examine only at the end of the 2 year course.
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A Level points system to be scrapped?
A report on the BBC Education website today reports that many educational establishments and most universities would welcome the scrapping of the points based UCAS offer system which has been in place for the last 10 years.
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