I can’t understand these new educational qualifications, any more than the other people (to the lasting shame of our country, one of them from overseas) who have noticed this story.
Now when I was at school one was expected, as a ‘high-school physics student’, to be able to design an atomic bomb (theory paper) and to [...]
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Advanced part of the course
Posted in education, tagged qualifications on 13 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“This is a… job? ‘Short order cook’?”
Posted in education, tagged McDonald's on 11 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
[Stephen Briggs, after Terry Pratchett: Mort]
The personnel manager (who apparently likes to be called ‘chief people officer’) of McDonald’s, the restaurant used to frighten naughty French chefs, is quoted by the Telegraph as claiming that his company is now ‘a university in its own right’.
At last, a proper benchmark (as they say in industrial quality [...]
Cost-effective
Posted in education, tagged lack thereof on 9 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Best-quality doomsaying from serial prognosticator leg-iron:
In using the children to control their parents, Labour have created uncontrollable children. Looking for violent protest? Wait a few years. Wait until these creatures mature, leave school and demand the benefits and/or well-paid jobs to which they have been told they are Entitled. When they find there’s no job [...]
Qualifications on demand
Posted in education, tagged science GCSEs on 6 March, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Scarey exam paper from David Davis.
Now once upon a time I discovered in an old trunk in an attic some papers for exams which I had actually passed, once upon a somewhat earlier time.
Sitting amongst the joists and fibreglass I tried to work out how I had ever managed to answer a single question.
Biology is [...]
All your children is belong to us
Posted in education, tagged home education on 23 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Excellent fisking by Bishop Hill of someone called Semple, whose site I do not propose to dignify with a visit, and who is apparently involved in the government’s vicious campaign against home education (I propose to call it that to distinguish it from ’schooling’).
Unable to add anything to His Grace’s fine sermon, I can only [...]
We mean no harm to your planet
Posted in education, tagged sorry state on 15 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Harrumphing at the Telegraph time again.
Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once.
But scientists are now coming to the conclusion that the universe is teeming with living organisms.
The change in thinking has come about because of the new belief there are an abundant number of habitable planets [...]
Industrial archaeology
Posted in education on 12 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The ‘education’ racket, neatly summarised by the reliable (and educational) leg-iron.
Socialism has created a race of snooty, arrogant, self-important people, the very sort they claim to despise. All in the name of targets. Nobody wants to drive the gritter lorry. Nobody wants to run the sewage plant. Nobody wants to dig up a gas main [...]
Oh dearie me
Posted in education, tagged nativity play on 9 December, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Found in the Daily Mail by Mrs. Underclass, and posted without further comment:
School apologies for ‘Chav’ nativity where wise men give Burberry gifts and Mary looks forward to getting child benefit
Geography is crap
Posted in education, tagged geography on 8 December, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The outstanding leg-iron (who ought to write a book) on an idea proposed by Mr. Balls the Politician, who wants to remove a number of subjects from the school curriculum, including geography:
But geography? What? These kids should be mobile to the extent that they could get jobs anywhere in the world. How, if they don’t [...]
