Solving the British State “qualifications” problem
David Davis
David Davis
I mused quietly on Facebook an hour or so ago, and thought I’d share it with all you people. It was stimulated by this.
MY PROPOSALS for “reforming the examination system”…
(1) Each University to set its own papers for “O”-levels and “A”-levels (you read it here first….) The scumbag ones will degrade theirs to get people in, and subsequent employment-failure will get them closed down…
(2) Subjects: Maths, Sciences (all three) Dead White Male English lit and writing, English history + others, Proper Geography (not One-world-MarxoNazism), Classical Greek and/or Latin + Roman history. Anything to do with “adverts” and “media” to be taught by proper ad-professionals and proper journos, not “teachers”. Then we erase the anti-commerce-bias in schools.
(3) Pupils to have completed functionally the entire A-level course in Maths and Science as it now stands, by age 13 (it could be done in the 1940s/50s, and children are no more stupid now than they were then…)
(4) All pupils 13+ to be thrown out of school, absolutely, for 2 years. Get a job, break rocks, learn to be a brickie, stack shelves, start a business, shadow a banker or scientist, cut women’s hair, etc. Bugger off…don’t want you back till you’re 15.
(5) Those few who return, will do 4-6 courses of 2-years+ with exams at the end. As the borders of science increase and expand, the science papers will get longer and more exciting, not shorter and more devoid of content.
(6) Science syllabuses to include (from age 7/8/9 onwards:- trips to blast furnaces, steel-foundries, production-lines, aluminium-smelters, proper chem labs, nuclear power stations, large mechanised farms feeding stadium-sized blast-freezers with peas and sprouts, chip-fabs, car-makers, goods-distribution-hubs, air traffic-control centres and the like. Photos to be taken, and write-ups to be done by all students, o count towards their O-levels.
