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Originally Posted by nomadking
Still haven't seen any examples from Troy Deeny of people who played a major part in UK history.
Strange that people keep complaining about the "racist" UK education system, when those from West Africa, Asian, and Chinese groups do well compared to Afro-Caribbean and even White British. The only group to perform worse than Afro-Caribbean children are those from Travellers groups, and they tend not to go to school in the first place. That proves that the problem isn't the education system, but the families themselves.
You can't compare the numbers of people from certain groups in certain jobs, if they're not achieving the required educational levels. You have to compare the %ages of those achieving any required educational levels and the desire to do a particular job, not the population levels.
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That's suggesting that people from certain racial backgrounds are solely at fault for their own lack of attainment. Successful education is a two way street - pupils need to engage in the education system but also the education system needs to engage with pupils of all backgrounds.
We all had subjects we hated when we were at school. To an extent, you have to have a natural talent in any given subject but the subject itself needs to be interesting. I have been going through a number of GCSE syllabi with my youngest as she has been doing her options. Two subjects I hated at school, history and RE look really interesting now. History has gone away from kings and queens and their dates of reign to thematic areas (history of medicine, cold war and the rise of the nazis for example) Religious Studies as it is called now compares and contrasts different religions but 50% of the course is ethics and the role of religion in society.
Of course it might be that I am older with education being wasted on the young and all that but courses now seem so much more interesting than when I was at school.
The biggest tragedy in education is talented pupils slipping though the system. How many great minds have slipped through the cracks of the system? I am sure we all know people who are fiercely intelligent with little or no formal education to back that up