Preparing the battlefield…

was doing some research into the basic standards required for school leavers nowadays.

Found this site, which describes the Statutory requirements at key stage 4.

I’m intrigued - how do you enforce learning? As in:

compulsory areas of learning: careers education, sex education and work-related learning

I can see that you can require that education be offered, but I don’t know how you can require that someone learns what is on offer.

Then I found these gems

What, pray tell, is a “Certificate in Preparation for Working Life”? How have I managed to get so far through my working life without one? Can I get one from night school?

Mad. It’s all completely mad.

This entry was written by Jax, posted on Sat Nov 18 2006 at 20:27, filed under Stealing your freedom. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. Tim
    Posted Sat Nov 18 2006 at 21:34 | Permalink

    You forgot to :rant:

    :-)

  2. Merry
    Posted Sat Nov 18 2006 at 22:49 | Permalink

    Meep. That really is quite bizarre. They missed out “Entry Level Certificate in Choosing Your Preparation Certificate”.

    :wall:

    Meanwhile, back at the ranch….

  3. Raymond
    Posted Mon Nov 20 2006 at 13:47 | Permalink

    Mad, perhaps. Scary, definitely. I wonder whether someone in power has taken the term “university of life” rather too literally …

    I’m studying for my diploma in towing the party line ;^P

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