1. Give young students experience of life skills and careers.
2. Replace all SATs with individual student profiles.
3. At 14 let students choose a pathway which matches their aspirations.
4. Ensure all vocational courses are taught in excellent facilities by teachers with relevant real world experience.
5. At 16 students can specialise further or change pathways.
6. Vocational degrees endorsed by employers.
Posted by: Dave KAYLL | 11.02.2009 01:43pm
My schooling was a happy one.It had a bias towards academia and as I said,I was happy,but it did not provide me with the proper tools to accomodate the world I would be expected to enhabit and contribute to.
The banking system is a perfect example of this.Do you honestly think that bankers would of wanted all to have a broad understanding of what they were up to?.No.But now we have the chance to make something as important as your finances part of the cariculum.Find peoples strengths and focus on them and not bring people down by suggesting they are inferior if they do not develop or have no aptitude for a certain subject.Case in point,the extra maths lessons I had.I should of been given extra Art lessons instead.As I'm now a Portrait Painter not a Mathmatition and never likely to be either.
We only get one life and our education should be a first step towards a rewarding and fruitful existance.Not some boring,detention centre to keep children off the streets,that will set them back from their future as opposed to propelling them forward into it.Help make teaching easier for those who still do it too.Maybe school will be a desirable destination then for children and not a chore.
"Make it Relavent and the Children will Make it!"
Good Luck DAVE KAYLL