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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Well, Garinda.....you can prove anything with statistics, and this government has been very fond of using statistics and targets.......and I don't believe educational standards have risen very much. Universities are being asked to lower their standards in order to let more people in who would never get there. I can't believe this is good for the Universities or for the country as a whole...and i think it casts doubt on the integrity of degrees in general.
Certainly. during my work I interviewed a large number of young people....and found their educational standards left a lot to be desired...and their handwriting and spelling was abysmal.
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I can see what you are saying. Lies, damned lies, and statistics, and all that.
I'm not being rude, but the people you would have interviewed, were like me, probably educated whilst the Tories were in power, so you can't really blame their bad literacy on Blair.
A change I'm glad that has been brought about is that children's whole lives aren't mapped out for them at the age of eleven. If you failed the eleven plus, you were to all attempts and purposes, assigned a second class education.
At the begining of sixties the percentage of people who went on to university fron secondary modern schools was less than one percent. Happily things are different today. My own parents were equally intelligent, yet my father received a great education, at his fee paying grammar school, whilst my mum didn't, and like many of her generation, it was decided by the eleven plus that she was basically factory fodder. Today, the opportunity is there for all, if they wish to take it.