Don't boys do A' Levels these days??

[gnvqsos]

Every year,post girls pretending they are going to fail,gaining 4 straight As due to private tuition bought by daddy

 

 

disappointed boys crawl off with c,d, e and an O level in woodwork

[Nagel]

THIS year’s crop of young, predominantly female, students pictured celebrating their A Levels is up to 20% less attractive than last year’s, it has been claimed.

 

Researchers have found that that perkiness and litheness have dropped, possibly as a result of the poor summer weather.

 

Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies said “There’s been a considerable decline in bewitching nubility among the young women who represent our country’s future.

 

“One of the ones in the Daily Telegraph was a 7 at best”.

 

“Of course, less attractive women have the right to an education too. No-one’s saying they don’t. It’s just that newspaper editors – and probably newspaper readers, I suppose – aren’t into seeing the plain ones hugging, and kissing, and touching each other tenderly on the arm in a display of hormonally-charged affection.

 

“Or pressing their lissom young bodies against each other.

 

“Also, some of this year’s photographs had very poor composition. In a lot of the pics, the girl’s hair obscured their faces, and some had their arms folded, which somewhat defeats the object.

 

“And in the Mail’s traditional picture of two girls jumping in the air, one of them was wearing a Marty McFly-style windcheater, rather than the flimsy cotton summer dress tradition demands.

 

“To compound the problem, boys have started doing well in A Levels, meaning that some perfectly good shots of young women have been ruined by having young men on them.

 

“Although you can crop them at home in Photoshop, if you right-click and save them.”

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/a-level-students-20-less-fit-than-last-year-2012081738435

[Vague_Boy]

Highly educated multilingual unemployed workforce!

 

Highly educated?

 

 

School leavers 'unable to function in the workplace'

 

Figures show that 42 per cent of companies now stage lessons in core subjects because young people are unable to function in the workplace.

 

The Confederation of British Industry said that too many school leavers struggled to write to the necessary standard, employ basic numeracy or use a computer properly.

 

Almost two-thirds of business leaders also said that teenagers were failing to develop vital skills such as self-management and timekeeping at school.

 

The disclosure – in a survey of 542 firms employing around 1.6m people – will add to growing concerns that the education system is failing to equip children for the demands of university and the workplace.

It is claimed that year-on-year rises in GCSE and A-level results have been driven by a focus on “teaching to the test” instead of promoting a rounded education.

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GCSE and A-levels are easier, Ofqual finds

 

Business bosses blast the 'dumbing down' of exams

 

MPs criticise exam boards for dumbing down standards in a 'race to the bottom' to sign up schools

 

 

"We are at a stage where there has to be revolutionary change otherwise, this country will continue to slide down the slippery slope to mediocrity."

 

He added: "We are witnessing an illusory 'great leap forward' in education, where achieving contrived targets has become the end in itself. The proof lies in the enormous expense to provide remedial mathematics and even remedial science classes at university, and the lack of skills of graduates highlighted by employers."

Richard Pike, chief executive, Royal Society of Chemistry

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More collective delusion.

 

Just as we deluded ourselves on the viability of our "service economy" (and languish in massive debt while countries that actually make things like China and Germany forge ahead).

 

Just as we deluded ourselves that selling each other the same pile of bricks at ever increasing prices was anything other than insanity ("new paradigm", "house prices only ever go up", "it's different this time").

 

So we continue to delude ourselves that teaching methods have miraculously advanced. That we are turning out a generation of Joe 90s and Wesley Crushers.

 

Occam's Razor gives us our guide here.

 

Which is the more likely scenario?

 

Teaching methods have advanced massively over the past few decades (but this takes hard work and money)

 

Our children have turned into a bunch of "Midwich Cuckoos" for some reason

 

Exams standards are slipping (cheap, requires practically no effort and the results are immediate)

 

Now, leaving the nursery for one moment, which is the most likely real world scenario?

[chem1st]

Highly educated?

 

 

 

LINK

 

 

GCSE and A-levels are easier, Ofqual finds

 

Business bosses blast the 'dumbing down' of exams

 

MPs criticise exam boards for dumbing down standards in a 'race to the bottom' to sign up schools

 

 

 

LINK

 

More collective delusion.

 

Just as we deluded ourselves on the viability of our "service economy" (and languish in massive debt while countries that actually make things like China and Germany forge ahead).

 

Just as we deluded ourselves that selling each other the same pile of bricks at ever increasing prices was anything other than insanity ("new paradigm", "house prices only ever go up", "it's different this time").

 

So we continue to delude ourselves that teaching methods have miraculously advanced. That we are turning out a generation of Joe 90s and Wesley Crushers.

 

Occam's Razor gives us our guide here.

 

Which is the more likely scenario?

 

Teaching methods have advanced massively over the past few decades (but this takes hard work and money)

 

Our children have turned into a bunch of "Midwich Cuckoos" for some reason

 

Exams standards are slipping (cheap, requires practically no effort and the results are immediate)

 

Now, leaving the nursery for one moment, which is the most likely real world scenario?

 

Lots of the unemployed are highly educated and many speak multiple languages, particularly foreigners. Many are under-employed.

 

We have both highly educated people and people with very little education.

 

For our children to compete, we need to up the game, we need them to collectively speak many languages.