>The current education system is a mishmash of Victorian schooling, designed for an economy of smokestack factories, and Enlightenment-era universities, which are more focused on expanding the sum of human knowledge than preparing students for a career.
how DARE young people learn anything other than the bare minimum for them to become an efficient wage slave for mastercard
So a sticking plaster on the long term refusal of successive governments to make sure the population is skilled enough for their jobs.
The Torygraph giving its usual cunty spin on things.
He’s the son of Tony Blair who is responsible for drastically changing the University system though?
Is it not just a degree apprenticeship? something that has existed for years now
> where the blame is pinned on Brexit.
… where the blame is ***correctly*** pinned on Brexit.
It isn’t wrong to say “we should ensure more British people carry out these roles”. What *was* wrong was the sledgehammer approach of banning skilled foreigners without first ensuring we trained more British workers to fill those vacancies and had the ability to pay them better. But the government didn’t do this – instead the government helped make university increasingly expensive and therefore prohibitive.
If Brexit had been an honest venture rather than a cynical power-grab there would have been no mad rush. It would have been a slow, decades-long transition of power backed up with targeted training and investment in British people.
I knew someone who worked as an executive at a private British school in Finland, while the private school had a price tag attached to it he used to say how much they had to bring their A game to stay in business (compared with other countries). If they want to know how to improve it they should have a look at educational systems in Finland, Norway, Sweden.
I really believe it would benefit everyone to review the
system itself and understand what we want from it.
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>The current education system is a mishmash of Victorian schooling, designed for an economy of smokestack factories, and Enlightenment-era universities, which are more focused on expanding the sum of human knowledge than preparing students for a career.
how DARE young people learn anything other than the bare minimum for them to become an efficient wage slave for mastercard
So a sticking plaster on the long term refusal of successive governments to make sure the population is skilled enough for their jobs.
The Torygraph giving its usual cunty spin on things.
He’s the son of Tony Blair who is responsible for drastically changing the University system though?
Is it not just a degree apprenticeship? something that has existed for years now
> where the blame is pinned on Brexit.
… where the blame is ***correctly*** pinned on Brexit.
It isn’t wrong to say “we should ensure more British people carry out these roles”. What *was* wrong was the sledgehammer approach of banning skilled foreigners without first ensuring we trained more British workers to fill those vacancies and had the ability to pay them better. But the government didn’t do this – instead the government helped make university increasingly expensive and therefore prohibitive.
If Brexit had been an honest venture rather than a cynical power-grab there would have been no mad rush. It would have been a slow, decades-long transition of power backed up with targeted training and investment in British people.
I knew someone who worked as an executive at a private British school in Finland, while the private school had a price tag attached to it he used to say how much they had to bring their A game to stay in business (compared with other countries). If they want to know how to improve it they should have a look at educational systems in Finland, Norway, Sweden.
I really believe it would benefit everyone to review the
system itself and understand what we want from it.