[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The problem is for years now a University education has been held up as the Holy Grail, most kids want to go to Uni, 95 per cent of my eldest sons year group went to Uni, and of those that didn't they don't want to study for a "trade", very few want to slog it out on a building site these days, so now after years of pushing kids into Mickey Mouse courses at Uni, they have tried to dissuade kids from going by giving them huge debt, this isn't working so now they have now introduced the C grade in Maths and English, have cut out controlled assessments, so everything hinges on one year end exam, and this year the A to E gradings are changing so kids will be graded from 9 to 1, with tougher exams, basically so only the cream or those who can afford tutoring and extra lessons will be heading to Uni in the future, the whole system is a mess as they continue to chop and change the courses, the exams, what they call the exams, how they grade exams, while parents and kids have to suffer through it all. The rise in adverts for Apprenticeships is no coincidence!

..if only they put the resources that they spend on a continuous changing system into the classrooms, eh Cherie...and it's these constant changes which are the main thing that are deterring many from teaching as well...