Thousands of teachers failing basic English and maths
All teachers entering the profession must have Grade C English and maths. Further proof that this qualification is no guarantee or indeed indication that holders can do basic English and maths comes with this story below. It isn’t news, teachers who have finished their PGCE can simply keep re-taking basic (and I do mean basic) English and [...]
Problems with exams
The Daily Telegraph has published a detailed and extensive expose of the way in which Awarding Bodies appear to be “manipulating” the GCSE system. The link is here and it makes very interesting reading
Unlike GCSE, Functional Skills has defined skills criteria that every assessment must test - it makes it much harder to design a test [...]
Morrison’s forced to send school-leavers back to “school”
The standard of school-leavers is so poor that one supermarket has sent back three-quarters of its recruits for “remedial pre-job training” before they start work.
This report in the Telegraph goes onto mentions English and Maths as expected but also focuses on some very simple things like making eye contact and knowing what time it is!
Here’s the full [...]
Expected announcement about adult skills this morning
We’re expecting BIS to say what changes are about to take place to Skills for Life, particularly in relation to replacing Adult Literacy and Numeracy with Functional Skills.
More here later along with the link when I get it.
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