The scandals just keep on coming. I don't even have to think.
Why doesn't the government do this stuff which is vital to kids' futures.
Why do they have to farm it out?
Is it because the mills lose papers?
Is it because the mills inflate marks?
Is it because the mills make questions that are unanswerable?
Is it because they take bribes?
Is it because mills leak the papers?
Take you pick
Checkitout: the latest boondogle
..Watchdog warning over exam paper blunders
By Jeff Pachoud | AFP
.. ..Exam boards are being told to carry out out extra checks to avoid further blunders after thousands of students faced exam questions containing mistakes, it emerged on Thursday.
England's exam regulator Ofqual issued the warning as it investigates six errors in this year's A-level and GCSE exam papers.
The latest slip-ups to come to light were in AS-level geography and computing papers set by AQA, one of England's largest exam boards.
In the geography paper a graph showing the velocity of a river was incorrectly labelled as 0.5 rather than 0.05.
AQA apologised and said "no students will be disadvantaged as a result".
Friday 10 June 2011
Thursday 9 June 2011
down with scholars
The Times Higher Education weekly publication writes about the HE sector and
has on its last page a comedic take on the troubles in the sector through
the fictional University of Poppleton.
One great story was the one that makes fun of the managerialism at all universities.
Universities turn out many MBA grads each year and they started getting hired to
handle the business future of univerisities. Instead, they are handing out jobs
to their out of work friends, at about £120 000 a year,
has on its last page a comedic take on the troubles in the sector through
the fictional University of Poppleton.
One great story was the one that makes fun of the managerialism at all universities.
Universities turn out many MBA grads each year and they started getting hired to
handle the business future of univerisities. Instead, they are handing out jobs
to their out of work friends, at about £120 000 a year,
when lecturer pay has been
frozen for at least 5 years,
and all the universities are laying off lecturers and cleaners.
frozen for at least 5 years,
and all the universities are laying off lecturers and cleaners.
So, this is part of the bigger story of the Haves and the Have nots.
Whoever has their hands on cold hard cash:
banks, government ministers, managers, Churches
is living the high life.
Everybody else has to get ready for the poorhouse.
Whoever has their hands on cold hard cash:
banks, government ministers, managers, Churches
is living the high life.
Everybody else has to get ready for the poorhouse.
checkitout:
Down with scholars!
22 October 2009
By Laurie Taylor
Our vice-chancellor is to head up a brand new organisation called UMAS (University Managers Against Scholarship).
Speaking to The Poppletonian earlier this week, he explained that membership of UMAS was open to all university vice-chancellors who did not go along with "the fashionable self-serving research peddled in organs like Times Higher Education that suggests that scholars make the best university leaders".
"Look at this university now," he said. "Does anyone seriously believe that we'd be in our present state if there'd been an airy-fairy head-in-the-clouds scholar at the helm, rather than myself and my dedicated and ever-growing team of hard-nosed functionally illiterate managers."
Did he anticipate a large membership? "Oh yes. You've only got to attend a couple of meetings of UUK to realise that there are simply dozens of vice-chancellors sitting around the table who don't have an idea in their heads about Proust or particle physics but would certainly know a strategic objective if it looked them in the face."
Down with scholars!
22 October 2009
By Laurie Taylor
Our vice-chancellor is to head up a brand new organisation called UMAS (University Managers Against Scholarship).
Speaking to The Poppletonian earlier this week, he explained that membership of UMAS was open to all university vice-chancellors who did not go along with "the fashionable self-serving research peddled in organs like Times Higher Education that suggests that scholars make the best university leaders".
"Look at this university now," he said. "Does anyone seriously believe that we'd be in our present state if there'd been an airy-fairy head-in-the-clouds scholar at the helm, rather than myself and my dedicated and ever-growing team of hard-nosed functionally illiterate managers."
Did he anticipate a large membership? "Oh yes. You've only got to attend a couple of meetings of UUK to realise that there are simply dozens of vice-chancellors sitting around the table who don't have an idea in their heads about Proust or particle physics but would certainly know a strategic objective if it looked them in the face."
Our vice-chancellor confirmed that UMAS would go forward under its newly designed logo - Scholarship Sucks. Management Moves.
Sunday 13 March 2011
Schools and low-performing, handy, techy kids.
Let them eat Jafa cakes!
The British government has studiously put poor, handy kids on the scrap heap of life
by not giving them apprenticeships for decades.
Those kids have also been without Technical institutes, because Thatcher
wanted to fool us into thinking that there was growth in tertiary education.
Now the current Con-Dems are set on closing many of those same post-92 'universities' through their generous £9000 fees.
Brilliant. Full-circle circle-jerk politics, for idiots
checkitout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/13/schools-failing-teenagers-with-vocational-aspirations
Half of pupils are being consigned 'to the scrapheap' by schools
Secondary schools in England and Wales focus on brighter children and fail to help teenagers prepare for world of work, warns Demos
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* Tracy McVeigh
* The Observer, Sunday 13 March 2011
Half of all teenagers in England and Wales are being failed by secondary schools that focus on brighter children destined to go on to higher education, according to a damning new report from the thinktank Demos.
The report, The Forgotten Half, claims that secondary schools routinely neglect pupils with vocational aspirations, offering minimal careers advice and little help in finding the type of jobs that would suit them. "Our schools are teaching just half of the population," said one of the report's authors, Jonathan Birdwell.
"The education system needs to be less focused on pushing young people through the hoops of assessment that lead on to higher education, and more on equipping them with the skills to enter and progress through the labour market," he added.
One of the key findings of the research is that many of the vocational qualifications that children are encouraged to aim for turn out to be worthless. "That was one thing that really shocked me," said Birdwell.
Work-related learning was found to be low quality and young people failed to benefit from compulsory work experience due to poor links with local businesses and a failure to relate work experience to lessons given in the classroom. Schools were also found to undervalue the importance of part-time work, after-school clubs and volunteering in building up young people's skills, experience and their CVs....
Let them eat Jafa cakes!
The British government has studiously put poor, handy kids on the scrap heap of life
by not giving them apprenticeships for decades.
Those kids have also been without Technical institutes, because Thatcher
wanted to fool us into thinking that there was growth in tertiary education.
Now the current Con-Dems are set on closing many of those same post-92 'universities' through their generous £9000 fees.
Brilliant. Full-circle circle-jerk politics, for idiots
checkitout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/13/schools-failing-teenagers-with-vocational-aspirations
Half of pupils are being consigned 'to the scrapheap' by schools
Secondary schools in England and Wales focus on brighter children and fail to help teenagers prepare for world of work, warns Demos
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Comments (99)
* Tracy McVeigh
* The Observer, Sunday 13 March 2011
Half of all teenagers in England and Wales are being failed by secondary schools that focus on brighter children destined to go on to higher education, according to a damning new report from the thinktank Demos.
The report, The Forgotten Half, claims that secondary schools routinely neglect pupils with vocational aspirations, offering minimal careers advice and little help in finding the type of jobs that would suit them. "Our schools are teaching just half of the population," said one of the report's authors, Jonathan Birdwell.
"The education system needs to be less focused on pushing young people through the hoops of assessment that lead on to higher education, and more on equipping them with the skills to enter and progress through the labour market," he added.
One of the key findings of the research is that many of the vocational qualifications that children are encouraged to aim for turn out to be worthless. "That was one thing that really shocked me," said Birdwell.
Work-related learning was found to be low quality and young people failed to benefit from compulsory work experience due to poor links with local businesses and a failure to relate work experience to lessons given in the classroom. Schools were also found to undervalue the importance of part-time work, after-school clubs and volunteering in building up young people's skills, experience and their CVs....
Sunday 20 February 2011
you pays yer money you gets yer degree
a discussion of private universities , coming soon
I've got enough problems with the 'customers' I teach, but if the whole uni exists for the purposes of making money, the whole epistemological edifice falls kinda flat.
-Cosmik67
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