The teachers union will try and silence any meaningful discussion on State education,claiming that there are no problems and no evaluation of results is necessary. There is no doubt that the socialist education systems of Australia and England are similar,so lets look at problems in the U.K. (The Weekly Telegraph,17/23.10.07,p.24)
Educators in universities and schools believe that all students are equal in ability and therefore potentially equal in achievement.
Governments expect more and more students should reach University entrance standard and go on to further education. The British government wants 50% of school leavers to be in higher education by 2010. Britains two major universities,Oxford and Cambridge,(Australia has no equivalent) have a problem,twenty years after they drastically scaled down their entrance exams,which were said to favour the independent schools. Bracket creep in A levels causes a problem,since the mid 90′s,in which A and B grades accounted for 80% or more of their results,the number of independent schools achieving this result has risen from 6 in 1994 to 154 in 2007. Claims that changes to curriculim requirements,new style exam papers,retaking of modules make falling standards hard to prove. Now more than three times as many candidates awarded A grades has meant that 3 times as many candidates as places in Oxbridge,and both institutions are now setting their own entrance exams again. As the value of A levels falls,the equivalent to South Australia’s year 12,Tony Blair promised an International Baccalaureate provision in every local authority and independent schools are considering the new Pre-U exam being developed by Cambridge International Examinations.
The situation would seem very similar in Australia except the quality of university courses seems to be falling also.
Taking TAFE courses seems to be one answer but except for building,mining,farming and fishing as outlets for skills,there are few factories or laboratories. After the socialist lunatic fringe said we have entered the post industrial age and governments,including Malcolm Fraser,(do you mean that snobby ex-Prime Minister who supports Mugabe and his cronies) agreed our factories went overseas.
Without industry we do not need migrants and with the continued drought all migration should stop.
In England it is predicted that one in every 4 jobs will require a post-graduate qualification by 2020. (The New Statesman,1st October,articles in association with the disability agenda.)
