Happ Hazzard Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 This can only be a good thing. GCSEs are currently worthless outside the education system, employers simply don't believe they are worth anything, people can have an A in english and not be able to spell, an A in maths and not be able to do mental arithmetic etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted September 17, 2012 Author Share Posted September 17, 2012 If you want the best, then you need to find them. I'd like a system that rewards creative thinkers, rather than those who have advanced memory skills.Well, surely the job of the Exam Board is to set a national exam and corresponding marking schedule that does just that? Although, in fairness, Baccalaureate level is not really the correct level on which to assess these qualities to such a fundamental or 'important' level. I'd argue that it's the level at which the requisite amount of information expected to 'perform usefully' in society is assessed (thereafter to be built upon/expanded/further specialised, in higher education or otherwise). In my line of work, and corresponding professional qualifications, you can memorise the Acts, the Rules and relevant Case Law for the last 200 years down to the last comma, and all that won't get you to pass the exam at all, if you don't understand that knowledge and how to use it in practice, given a set of (exam question-postulated) facts. The exams are once a year, cumulative pass-or-fail 'all-in-ones' (4 exams, each is pass-or-fail, you need all 4 to qualify/rinse-repeat for other qualifications, in my case 3 for a total of 14 exams) and the questions throughout are designed to test just that: rote knowledge alone gets you a fail, it's a pre-requisite but useless for actually gaining points. I can't see how Baccalaureate questions could not be designed to achieve the exact same purpose: after all, they were when I passed my (all-in-one, all-or-nothing) Baccalauréat 20-odd years ago. As regards Darth Vader's comments (fair, to an extent), there are two (joint) ways of addressing them: extra examination time for (provably-) impaired sitters. And harder work. Do you have a link for the alleged 'no re-sit'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWOL Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 In the sixties and seventies even thick kids could get jobs, now they cannot. This is, in my opinion, the single biggest challenge facing education and indeed society (if there is such a thing) today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 What is the point of re-sits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Children with dyslexia are at an obvious disadvantage. Spelling Baccalaureate will be a nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWOL Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I know an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac, who sits up all night wondering if there is a dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I know an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac, who sits up all night wondering if there is a dog. :hihi::hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Children with dyslexia are at an obvious disadvantage. Spelling Baccalaureate will be a nightmare. So what is the solution? People who can't spell, can't spell. Employers aren't going to make allowances for dyslexics so why should schools? We need to stop worrying about upsetting kids so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 .......... And NO RESITS will be allowed. ...... I think that you have misunderstood something there. Re-sits probably will be allowed. However, by doing away with the modular design of many GCSEs, the ability to improve one's grade by resitting/resubmitting low scored units will no longer be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 So what is the solution? People who can't spell, can't spell. ........ So a job with Chanel will be out of the question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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