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Originally Posted by nffc
As a teacher yourself, what would you suggest as an alternative?
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I haven't one as such..except that pushing everyone down the same academic route is wrong and a more vocational based education system/qualifications would benefit everyone.We did have such a system except it meant children were separated into Grammar,Secondary Moderns and Technical schools via the 11 plus.This was a bit too decisive and unfair(as personal choice was put to one side)and thus the whole system was changed to the Comprehensive system.
All well and good but they somehow forgot that not everyone is academically inclined and more or less did away with vocational education.
The lack of certain skills in our workforce has come about as a consequence and we have a lot of people with media studies degrees...
I was looking forward to the governments new initiative to provide more vocational education for 18-25 year olds but I'm wondering how the present recession will sit with it now..finances will be a problem.