Writing on the website of the new think tank CLASS, Independent writer Owen Jones bemoans the fact that 4,000 school pupils have been awarded a "D" grade English GCSE whereas before the crackdown on grade inflation they could have expected a "C" grade.
http://www.classonline.org.uk/blog/item/our-young-people-deseve-a-secure-future1
Does he really think the best interests of those young people are served by pretending they have achieved more than they have? Does he also think it is good for the country that young people are given access to taxpayer-funded sixth-forms and apprenticeships on the basis of dodgy qualifications? Only the first paragraph of the article is worth reading, the rest of it is left-wing gush.
Writing in the Guardian on Tuesday Peter Wilby tells us that examinations are just "rationing devices" to allocate "university places and positions in elite professional occupations".
The whole point of the education system should be to transmit the British interpretation of Western culture from one generation to the next.
If it fails to achieve this wider objective (and there are grounds for thinking that the state schools have failed - totally failed) then there is little point in concentrating on the narrow objective of allocating positions in the elite.
All that will happen is that we will get an elite culturally ignorant, self-serving and self-obsessed.
Or has this already happened?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/26/gove-battle-against-higher-grades
http://www.classonline.org.uk/blog/item/our-young-people-deseve-a-secure-future1
Does he really think the best interests of those young people are served by pretending they have achieved more than they have? Does he also think it is good for the country that young people are given access to taxpayer-funded sixth-forms and apprenticeships on the basis of dodgy qualifications? Only the first paragraph of the article is worth reading, the rest of it is left-wing gush.
Writing in the Guardian on Tuesday Peter Wilby tells us that examinations are just "rationing devices" to allocate "university places and positions in elite professional occupations".
The whole point of the education system should be to transmit the British interpretation of Western culture from one generation to the next.
If it fails to achieve this wider objective (and there are grounds for thinking that the state schools have failed - totally failed) then there is little point in concentrating on the narrow objective of allocating positions in the elite.
All that will happen is that we will get an elite culturally ignorant, self-serving and self-obsessed.
Or has this already happened?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/26/gove-battle-against-higher-grades
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