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Originally Posted by Maggy J
As Ignitionnet says it an old chestnut dragged up every decade.School leavers could leave with top grades and crystal clear received pronunciation and would still be found wanting by prospective employers.
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I think the problem is that they
are leaving with top grades but the standard of their basic skills is abysmal.
Employers have every right to complain if people leaving school and applying to them for jobs aren't able to do maths, read and write to expected standards.
The argument that we perhaps need to wind our neck in on education and stop with the more 'exotic' aspects of subjects and concentrate on the basics rather than a collection of tick boxes to satisfy a curriculum is a good one. Without the basic communications skills even someone with the skills to do a job won't be able to present themselves articulately to an employer.
All well and good teaching pupils a wide curriculum but entirely pointless if the extent of their ability to deploy this knowledge is a multiple choice exam paper or a clearly framed question they have been able to practice via mocks and given guidance on how to answer for best results.
That requires nothing beyond the ability to learn by rote and recite information when certain stimuli are provided. Life generally requires a bit more than that.