Bag's Rants

Blairs Policies seem to be working.

The dumbing down of our children is progressing satisfactorily.

It seems that the schools climbing the league tables are doing so because they are being steered away from 'complicated' GCSE academic subjects towards 'simpler' GNVQ vocational subjects. Read more here.

The sciences seem to be the biggest hit although curiously Maths and English do not get a mention. I would have thought Maths was an academic subject. Maybe it hasn't got much worse because it was crap already.

I contradicts what the Government said after the last exams, read here, but that seems to be a standard now. The spin put on by statistics can make black sound like white.

It seems that soon we will have few intakes into research and development roles and with natural attrition the number able to do these tasks will reduce. Coupled with the fact that we are all expected to work longer it will be a while before replacements are impossible to find. So it will be an option of take Johnny Foreigner with his education, much better than ours, or we offshore the R&D processes to more educated countries.

We are wasting entire generations of kids potentials in the cause of feelgood and chasing artificial statistics. Someone needs to pay for this atrocity.

posted by Bag @ 10:49 am