Message-ID: <43DD0917.10703@naggum.no> From: Erik Naggum Organization: Ungregarious News User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Netscape/7.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, nb, no, da, sv, de-de, de, fr-fr, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SKEPSIS:; Subject: Employers attack drop in education standards X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 OpenPGP: id=C7F58576CC585167; url=http://erik.naggum.no/C7F58576CC585167.key Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms020007050507010002000803" X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) Sender: diskusjon-admin@lists.skepsis.no Errors-To: diskusjon-admin@lists.skepsis.no X-BeenThere: diskusjon@lists.skepsis.no X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Skepsis generelle diskusjonsliste List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:27:35 +0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms020007050507010002000803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Denne artikkelen er kanskje interessant for andre her, også: Employers attack drop in education standards By Allister Heath and Fraser Nelson The Business Online, 2006-01-29 GREAT Britain is facing long-term economic decline and social chaos unless it urgently improves its schools, business leaders and economists warned this weekend after it emerged that children have suffered an unprecedented drop in reasoning ability. Employers said a groundbreaking study of 10,000 children, which reveals that 11- and 12-year-olds are between two and three years behind where they were 15 years ago in terms of their ability to think and reason, confirmed their worst fears. They said that better skills are essential in the global knowledge economy and to compete against highly skilled workers from India and China. The figures will bolster supporters of Tony Blair’s school reforms, which left-wing Labour MPs are this weekend seeking to water down. The research, by Michael Shayer, a leading psychologist at King’s College, London, will soon appear in the British Journal of Educational Psychology. It measures the collapse in children’s cognitive and conceptual development, and reveals that the performance of boys and girls has deteriorated significantly. It undermines government claims that school pupils are becoming brighter and more knowledgeable every year and strongly implies that exams are easier and grade inflation rife in British schools, as critics have long alleged. Digby Jones, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said these latest findings were “horrifying” and that they confirmed what his members had been telling him. He warned that Britain was heading towards social catastrophe unless educational standards were urgently raised: “The greatest challenge to the UK in the next generation is that we do not have the basic literacy and numeracy levels required. In this huge globalised competitive world where China wants your lunch and India wants your dinner, 20% of British adults can’t read or write. “The social dislocation in producing a generation that is illiterate and innumerate is enormous. The failure of basic schooling means we will all have a nastier and more dangerous society.” Much of the collapse in achievement took place between 1995 and 2000; but there was a further drop between 2000 and 2004, Shayer’s research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, a body at the heart of Britain’s educational establishment, reveals. Jones added that poor education was a key reason for weak productivity and that the fact that 30% of those who leave school and go to work have to be remedially trained by employers in reading, writing and counting amounted to a huge drag on resources: “Globalisation is made for Britain, a country where trade is in our DNA. We will not be able to make the most of it if we don’t have enough skills. The government is failing to produce people entering the workforce capable of basic levels of literacy and numeracy.” John Redwood, who is co-chairing the Conservative party’s economic competitiveness policy group, said the figures were staggering – and “even more interesting because they have been produced by a government study. These results are extremely worrying. They show we’re not teaching our children the right way in primary schools or thereafter. This is far wider than just education. It is vital for a competitive Britain that we have a well-educated workforce. It shows how important it is to have better teaching methods for our children.” David Smith, chief economist at Williams de Broë, said: “Unlike the government’s fantastic elastic standards, this new research is actually trying to measure absolute standards and found that they are in freefall.” Smith added that Britain has long failed to educate adequately a sizeable section of its population. Smith said: “This is frightening. Even though we are starting from a low level of achievement, we are still going backwards. Poor education denies life chances and will lead to further declines in social mobility. Young people with poor numeracy and literacy skills are incapable of doing the highly skilled jobs that their counterparts in China and India are able to do.” The row comes as Prime Minister Tony Blair is trying to push through reforms to the school system which would give schools greater freedom from local authority control. After a mass rebellion led by Lord Kinnock, Downing Street has accepted that it must make concessions and compromise with rebel Labour MPs to dilute its proposals. Left-wing opponents of the reforms argue that schools may use their greater independence to select pupils by ability, something which they oppose on principle. http://www.thebusinessonline.com/ har flere artikler, blant annet den også viktige og gode kommentaren The Stupid Nation, men URL'ene deres er helt utrolige, så det er lettere å finne artiklene fra forsiden. Erik Naggum -- Member of: AAAS ACM AMS APS ASA EMS IEEE IMS MAA NYAS NBF NFF NMF What do I read? See http://erik.naggum.no/sources-and-resources/ ID: 2006-029-66101 Nullius in verba. 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