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 Stirlingsays  21 Aug 20 10.08pm |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Ministers select their own advisers Stirling. Their key supporter will be someone brought in from outside. See my earlier post. I do not believe it was the idea of a senior civil servant to remove AS levels from the curriculum. In the end the decision to can AS Levels was one Gove made having spoken with many people. He didn't actually mention any civil servants at the time as I recall. He did mention academics and educationalists. That is one of the biggest reasons for the current shambles. So, well let's blame Ofqual. It can't really fight back. What does Williamson know about educational advisors? The guy was leading the Defence department a while ago. You are avoiding the reality that Williamson is a figurehead for a system that hasn't been fit for purpose for half a century. Like I say, I'm not absolving any politician of the last fifty years....since before sodding Ken Clarke for the state of the education system. I'm saying that the knee twitch to blame Williamson.....a politician I have my own criticisms of....for what's happened here is misplaced. Educational standards have been in decline for decades and politiicians have been complicit in that as education just became a political football.....Just as the teachers themselves became political. You criticize Gove, at least he tried to actually introduce robust qualifications into the state system.....and was battled at every turn by exactly the type of people who drag the system down. Your 'prizes for everyone' crew are dismantling British education piece by piece because meritocracy exists as a debatable concept further down their list. Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Aug 2020 10.09pm)
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| Mapletree Croydon 22 Aug 20 12.04am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
What does Williamson know about educational advisors? The guy was leading the Defence department a while ago. You are avoiding the reality that Williamson is a figurehead for a system that hasn't been fit for purpose for half a century. Like I say, I'm not absolving any politician of the last fifty years....since before sodding Ken Clarke for the state of the education system. I'm saying that the knee twitch to blame Williamson.....a politician I have my own criticisms of....for what's happened here is misplaced. Educational standards have been in decline for decades and politiicians have been complicit in that as education just became a political football.....Just as the teachers themselves became political. Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Aug 2020 10.09pm) My criticism is that the Government has been putting unsuitable people into key roles. Education standards have not been in decline. Marking hasn’t kept up with the across the board improvements in performance resulting in grade inflation. Students now are better educated than in your day
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 22 Aug 20 12.47am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
So which of the following would you term as a fully experienced and capable leader? Boris Johnson I have left out Gove who is a weird Peter Pan figure and a bunch of people who don't have enough profile to know much about them. To me, the Cabinet is just stuffed full of work experience people. Gove is the one with most backbone & strength. He will say it as it is and not hide. He will call unions out and not hide and appease focus groups or the centre left elites who don’t vote Tory anyway but Johnson is for some reason doing what they desire. The Rishi Sunak love in is premature but expected with his sweetie handouts. Edited by Rudi Hedman (22 Aug 2020 7.51am)
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| Stirlingsays 22 Aug 20 3.58am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
My criticism is that the Government has been putting unsuitable people into key roles. Education standards have not been in decline. Marking hasn’t kept up with the across the board improvements in performance resulting in grade inflation. Students now are better educated than in your day
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| DANGERCLOSE London 22 Aug 20 7.44am |
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| Spiderman Horsham 22 Aug 20 7.49am |
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Originally posted by DANGERCLOSE
[Tweet Link]Who are these people? Bunch of loonies? Or is it just another anti-government protest? Edited by Spiderman (22 Aug 2020 7.54am)
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| Spiderman Horsham 22 Aug 20 7.52am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Ministers select their own advisers Stirling. Their key supporter will be someone brought in from outside. See my earlier post. I do not believe it was the idea of a senior civil servant to remove AS levels from the curriculum. In the end the decision to can AS Levels was one Gove made having spoken with many people. He didn't actually mention any civil servants at the time as I recall. He did mention academics and educationalists. That is one of the biggest reasons for the current shambles. So, well let's blame Ofqual. It can't really fight back. They may well select their own advisors but they inherit SCS, fact. Of course they have the option of moving them on but initially they will keep them.
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| Spiderman Horsham 22 Aug 20 7.57am |
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Mass demonstration in Trafalgar Square but I can’t go to a football match
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 22 Aug 20 8.08am |
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. Edited by Rudi Hedman (22 Aug 2020 8.10am)
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 22 Aug 20 8.09am |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
Who are these people? Bunch of loonies? Or is it just another anti-government protest? Edited by Spiderman (22 Aug 2020 7.54am) Piers Corbyn with the megaphone. Do you not think there needs to be some pushback? This whole thing is getting farcical, even if I did agree with the government intervention, which i don’t. They’re definitely making other lives worse and probably more of them than might catch Covid and the few who might die from it. An uptick in cases, with hospitalisations and deaths falling, while testing the hell out of the local area? Lockdown the whole city. Why not? We’re letting it happen. It’s completely insane and ruining this country and the lives and futures of people in it.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 22 Aug 20 8.37am |
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Read this and you’ll see why people have good reason to pushback. [Tweet Link]
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 22 Aug 20 8.47am |
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And this. All this locking down and testing testing testing is achieving nothing but possibly getting them useful if needed in the winter. The positive tests per tests has fallen but has stopped falling, probably because it cannot completely go away until it’s run it’s course naturally and the tests test positive for viral fragments of people who’ve had it but may not have even known or been bothered. Herd immunity? Probably. All this while virtually nobody is getting sick, going to hospital or dying. Boris is morphing into Layla Moran and Caroline Lucas now and their zero Covid aim as a strategy, which will cripple Britain properly. I expect they won’t care as long as everyone’s poor and hopeless and miserable. ‘‘Better than being dead or on a ventilator.’’ Nobody is at risk of that unless you’re badly struggling with your health, and very few now anyway. I don’t recognise this country anymore. They think they’re saviours or saints when really they’re complicit in the biggest damage to people you could imagine apart from war, but we could end up being in a worse situation than after a war. Edited by Rudi Hedman (22 Aug 2020 9.08am)
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