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Originally Posted by steeljack
Sorry to disagree , but some of the teachers from 30 odd years ago (who only attended teacher training college) were a damn sight better than than some/many of the teachers of today , prime example literacy rates and the use of proper English by their end product. , maybe some will disagree , but it's my humble opinion "Degrees" have been dumbed down for political reasons (the 'no one is a loser, everyone is worth a prize' mentality), some reports go so far as to compare a present day "Degree" from one of the new universities as being on a par to a 60s A Level .
Said it before and will say it again , Places that 5 /10/15 years ago who used to issue diplomas in cake decoration or tyre changing are not universities , but technical colleges offering adult education under a different name .
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Sadly, because it is quite sad, I woke up up thinking about this very post.
If you notice I made no mention about the quality of teaching in my original post.
From my own point of view I had some wonderful teachers at primary school, all of whom had been to teacher training college, with not a degree between them.
I also have some experience of attending a secondary school a little over thirty years ago, which had a head teacher and most of the staff without degrees.
At the first parent's evening my dad was so appalled at the quailty of teaching that the very next day I was in a private school, the same fee paying school my dad had attended.
My parents were in the fortunate position to be able to make that choice, even if it went against their principles, as a good education should be a right for all children, irrespective of the background of the parents.
I saw first hand the difference in the quality of teaching. The vast majority of teachers at my new school had been to Oxbridge colleges, and were truly amazing teachers, certainly much better than I'd had at my state school, some of whom should have been in secure mental hospitals.
Like me, hopefully we all had the pleasure of being taught by some wonderful teachers, who hadn't been to university. My original post only pointed out that this is no longer the case.
Those teachers might have been even better if they'd been graduates.
Who knows?