A clear vision for education please
Posted by Rueben on Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:34:53
David
do you believe its time to face the crisis in British education system - a system that sees British Indians returning to India to have children educated and the same system that produces 7 million illiterate adults in the UK to date. A system that fails our nations youth and robs them of a productive working life, does the conservative party of today understand that not all people are suited to office jobs but maybe able to offer more through manual skills and I dont mean labour I mean skills.
Skilled workers are one of the biggest factors that draw advanced manufacturing jobs to high-wage nations. But British policy has tended to assume that only white-collar jobs are desirable and that all blue-collar jobs are undesirable. It would be far better to have strong high tech industrial-arts and apprenticeship programs, like Germany has, than to divide every high school into "college-bound" and "loser" tracks. And without solid basic education, you can forget apprenticing later on to learn numerically-controlled machine tool operation, or anything like it. Part of our problem is the New Labour myth that the class system along with the bell curve has vanished, which causes us to be in denial about the fact that 40% of this country is working class and is going to have blue-collar jobs. Such people's can't just be told to become something they're not.
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