Politics (and other political stuff)
Politics (and other political stuff)
(24 Mar 2016, 6:52 pm)MurdnunoC Don't you just hate all those politically-motivated climate change myths propagated by those who have spent years undertaking research and collating evidence to support their claims?
(24 Mar 2016, 6:52 pm)MurdnunoC Don't you just hate all those politically-motivated climate change myths propagated by those who have spent years undertaking research and collating evidence to support their claims?
(24 Mar 2016, 10:25 pm)Adrian Or all the safety legislation that was written on the back of industrial disasters, and the investigations into those?
Teachers' union votes for strike ballot over academies
Teachers are calling for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against plans to force every school in England to become an academy.
The National Union of Teachers says there is no evidence to show academy status will improve schools more rapidly than local authority schools.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35905064
White Paper proposals:
(29 Mar 2016, 12:09 pm)Michael Just seen an advert for a program on channel 4 about Trump, on tomorrow.The man is a fucking idiot, a very dangerous one at that and I worry for America if the daft bastards voted him in
I'm sure i heard him say "If i stood and shot someone i wouldn't lose voters"
Typical red neck yank!
(29 Mar 2016, 12:09 pm)Michael Just seen an advert for a program on channel 4 about Trump, on tomorrow.The man is a fucking idiot, a very dangerous one at that and I worry for America if the daft bastards voted him in
I'm sure i heard him say "If i stood and shot someone i wouldn't lose voters"
Typical red neck yank!
(29 Mar 2016, 12:26 pm)MrFozz The man is a fucking idiot, a very dangerous one at that and I worry for America if the daft bastards voted him in
(29 Mar 2016, 12:26 pm)MrFozz The man is a fucking idiot, a very dangerous one at that and I worry for America if the daft bastards voted him in
(29 Mar 2016, 12:36 pm)Michael Complete tool Fozz, i dread to think what he'll do to America if he gets in.I like this whole Mexican Wall idea to keep the Mexicans out, he will get the Mexicans to build it...
Yet, he seems to get more supporters, to me that shows he'll be in the election vote...
(29 Mar 2016, 12:36 pm)Michael Complete tool Fozz, i dread to think what he'll do to America if he gets in.I like this whole Mexican Wall idea to keep the Mexicans out, he will get the Mexicans to build it...
Yet, he seems to get more supporters, to me that shows he'll be in the election vote...
GrownUpPolitics - Green Party 2016 Party Election Broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2dNEQiHUUo
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Not a fan of the Green party but this advert good haha
(06 Apr 2016, 12:58 pm)Michael GrownUpPolitics - Green Party 2016 Party Election Broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2dNEQiHUUo
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Not a fan of the Green party but this advert good haha
(06 Apr 2016, 12:58 pm)Michael GrownUpPolitics - Green Party 2016 Party Election Broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2dNEQiHUUo
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Not a fan of the Green party but this advert good haha
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35968423
YES
Our education system is set up to push young people into further and higher education and damn them if they'd like to do anything else.
The people in charge of education live in an isolated bubble world where they themselves have obediently travelled through the education system right through university and have then landed a job in education to start the whole cycle again. What's missing is any real experience. It's then compounded by teachers getting so wrapped up in meeting targets and getting pupils through tests with such narrowly defined curriculum that the end result is not a well rounded individual coming out of school but a trained dolphin who can jump through a hoop and tell you some very specific facts about a book they studied for two years or some alien maths formula which has no application in the real world.
Said pupil then goes off expecting employers to throw jobs at them because young people can see so many wealthy adults (teachers mainly) around them that it must be easy to get a job. The teachers haven't bothered to teach the qualities pupils really need as it isn't on the curriculum. The same teachers then turn around to now unemployed 17-year-old and say 'well you should have stayed on at college and then you'd get a job'. The same applies to 19 year olds who opted not to go to university. By the time they're 22 and an unemployed graduate its the economy's fault and nothing to do with the school, apparently.
As a youth I knew I wanted to work in hospitality. At every turn in school teachers told me it was a waste of time and I was 'bright' so should be academic. I trusted them and carried on through college. I got a part time job as a waiter and loved it so much I was soon assistant manager for a well known chain and learning so much more than I was at college. Teachers said it was the the wrong thing to do, so I went to uni. Two years at uni and I hate it. Still a part-time restaurant manager I eventually snap and quit uni, go full time and within months I'm Deputy Restaurant Manager for the company's largest UK branch earning a respectable amount of money. Fast forward a few years and I now run my own place with my partner and doing very well utilising almost zero skills I gained from school.
The same school bullied my brother and sisters in the same way and they both dropped out. Both of my sisters have very professional jobs, one in finance and one in nuclear electrical engineering (learned on-job not in school) and both own their own homes before age 30. My brother is 18 and is doing very well in the RAF an couldn't be happier. I believe my parents are very proud, they always encouraged us to do what we wanted and not what we were told was right.
If any of the forum's younger members feel like their school is pressuring them into following a path they don't feel comfortable in; please know that all you need is the determination and a clear mind to achieve what you want to do.
Teaching is a wonderful vocation and very few of us are brave enough to take it on. Most teachers are wonderful people and inspire children every day. It's the people in charge of the education system who are guiding teachers and their pupils in the wrong way.
(08 Apr 2016, 1:50 pm)James101 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35968423
YES
Our education system is set up to push young people into further and higher education and damn them if they'd like to do anything else.
The people in charge of education live in an isolated bubble world where they themselves have obediently travelled through the education system right through university and have then landed a job in education to start the whole cycle again. What's missing is any real experience. It's then compounded by teachers getting so wrapped up in meeting targets and getting pupils through tests with such narrowly defined curriculum that the end result is not a well rounded individual coming out of school but a trained dolphin who can jump through a hoop and tell you some very specific facts about a book they studied for two years or some alien maths formula which has no application in the real world.
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Teaching is a wonderful vocation and very few of us are brave enough to take it on. Most teachers are wonderful people and inspire children every day. It's the people in charge of the education system who are guiding teachers and their pupils in the wrong way.
(08 Apr 2016, 1:50 pm)James101 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35968423
YES
Our education system is set up to push young people into further and higher education and damn them if they'd like to do anything else.
The people in charge of education live in an isolated bubble world where they themselves have obediently travelled through the education system right through university and have then landed a job in education to start the whole cycle again. What's missing is any real experience. It's then compounded by teachers getting so wrapped up in meeting targets and getting pupils through tests with such narrowly defined curriculum that the end result is not a well rounded individual coming out of school but a trained dolphin who can jump through a hoop and tell you some very specific facts about a book they studied for two years or some alien maths formula which has no application in the real world.
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Teaching is a wonderful vocation and very few of us are brave enough to take it on. Most teachers are wonderful people and inspire children every day. It's the people in charge of the education system who are guiding teachers and their pupils in the wrong way.
(08 Apr 2016, 8:03 pm)BusLoverMum Sadly they get no say in this. Any deviation from the expectation and they are performance managed back into compliance. Or out of the profession.
It does appear that many schools have been turned into sausage factories which do not serve the needs of many young people at all well. Compulsory academisation is, unfortunately, going to be the git big hammer whacking the final nail into that coffin.
While it comes with its own headaches, it is a slight relief for them that my boys are completely side-stepping mainstream secondary school.
(08 Apr 2016, 8:03 pm)BusLoverMum Sadly they get no say in this. Any deviation from the expectation and they are performance managed back into compliance. Or out of the profession.
It does appear that many schools have been turned into sausage factories which do not serve the needs of many young people at all well. Compulsory academisation is, unfortunately, going to be the git big hammer whacking the final nail into that coffin.
While it comes with its own headaches, it is a slight relief for them that my boys are completely side-stepping mainstream secondary school.
UK student loans: 'we will trace and prosecute borrowers who don't pay'
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/...s-dont-pay
Also:
Stop plans to make it a criminal offence to not pay back your student loan
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121888
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That's me screwed... i owe like 25k
(10 Apr 2016, 3:13 pm)Michael UK student loans: 'we will trace and prosecute borrowers who don't pay'
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/...s-dont-pay
Also:
Stop plans to make it a criminal offence to not pay back your student loan
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121888
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That's me screwed... i owe like 25k
(10 Apr 2016, 3:13 pm)Michael UK student loans: 'we will trace and prosecute borrowers who don't pay'
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/...s-dont-pay
Also:
Stop plans to make it a criminal offence to not pay back your student loan
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121888
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That's me screwed... i owe like 25k
(10 Apr 2016, 3:28 pm)MurdnunoC As far as I can see, there's no mention of the threshold (currently at £21,000 for most recent loanees and somewhere in the region £17,000 for those who took out their loans prior to 2011/12) of either being removed or amended so I wouldn't worry that much.
(10 Apr 2016, 3:28 pm)MurdnunoC As far as I can see, there's no mention of the threshold (currently at £21,000 for most recent loanees and somewhere in the region £17,000 for those who took out their loans prior to 2011/12) of either being removed or amended so I wouldn't worry that much.
(10 Apr 2016, 3:35 pm)Michael When reading it, i have to admit i was confused, i wasn't sure if it was for past/current students or the new Uni year.
(10 Apr 2016, 3:35 pm)Michael When reading it, i have to admit i was confused, i wasn't sure if it was for past/current students or the new Uni year.