FE News
Category: Education Institutions
Carthorses
We again, as we do every year, make a point of reminding Joe Public how overworked and underpaid teaching professionals are with an article ‘Teaching professionals most likely to clock up unpaid overtime’ taken from the University and College Union (UCU) website.
“Teaching professionals are the group most likely to clock up unpaid overtime, according to [...]
Inspection Racket
EducationState have little time for education inspectors.
And why would we? They create unnecessary amounts of stress and bureaucracy. They waste time, money and other resources. And they are used an instrument of fear and control by Government.
It has dawned on us, moreover, that they bear many similarities to some rather unpleasant characters who extort money [...]
The Error of Truancy Rates
“Truancy rate reaches record level” declares the BBC education website.
We are told that, “The truancy statistics for the first two terms of the last school year show 1.03% of school sessions were missed without permission, up from 0.97%” and “show the rate of unauthorised absences as running higher than any annual figure since 1994, when [...]
Why don’t politicians listen?
The Primary Review findings prove YET AGAIN that politicians don’t listen and would rather toe the party line than to use common sense and admit to errors of judgement. We at EducationState thought we’d do our bit to improve their listening skills by lending them some of these:
Or these:
What next? A McLaureate? McNobel Prize? McOscar? Mc ...
Apparently, we shouldn’t be deriding the fact that McDonalds and other blue-chip companies are starting qualifications of their own.
Mike Baker, the BBC News Education spokesman, calls it “snobbery” to criticise these companies for trying to raise the esteem associated with non-academic, skills-based awards. Snobbery seemed a little inappropriate, however, so we’ve come up with some [...]
League Tables for Everyone.
As this Government seem hell-bent on introducing league tables for absolutely everything, we thought it would be fun to come up with some of our own:
1. Weather fronts from March 6th to 27th
2. Fish eaten on Sundays before tea
3. Green vegetables that are boiled not steamed
4. Eyeliner
5. Cheese biscuits
6. Supermarket trolleys
7. Pieces of paper with [...]
Graded Hindrance
Should knowledge be graded to fit the learner? From pre-school reading books to advanced English textbooks, there exists an enormous selection of material that is designed to avoid scaring students while at the same time allow them to progress. Are such materials helpful, however? Or has this need simply been created by marketing teams to [...]
The Unimportance of Being a Paper-Based Writer
We at EducationState have started the new academic year with all the enthusiasm of the last but still face one wrongly-held belief after another.
Take Literacy. Why can’t the powers that be understand that in today’s economy higher-level paper-based skills are not as crucial in the world of work as keyboard-based ones? Clearly, a well-structured essay [...]
Another Charlatan Restructure
Congratulations from EducationState to the civil serpents and politicians who came up with the idea of splitting the DfES up into two parts: Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR).
Genius. So impressive. You think, you spend your younger years slaving away for exams that prove [...]
No Carrots
The Business Link website urges companies to incentivise their staff through perks.
It states:
“Perks are generally a good method of tempting new employees and retaining workers as they are not related to productivity. Perks can encourage staff attachment to the business.
The options
There are a wide range of perks, including:
* occupational pensions
[...]