Diplomas pose basic skills hurdle

“The Diplomas that are central to government plans for 14-19 learning are said to be at risk because teenagers cannot manage the basic skills.

The QCA qualifications watchdog foresaw “a significant impact on pass rates”.

The required “functional” skills in literacy, numeracy and computing may put them off taking the new courses, a mix of theory and practical learning.” (BBC)

I think we need a “Words Fail Me” category on this blog. These are the same children who are doing so fabulously well (and better every year!) in all the Government tests.

This entry was written by Tim, posted on Tue Jul 3 2007 at 8:06, filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

4 Comments

  1. t-bird
    Posted Tue Jul 3 2007 at 8:36 | Permalink

    something somewhere has gone horribly wrong hasn’t it?

  2. Tim
    Posted Tue Jul 3 2007 at 8:41 | Permalink

    Hasn’t it just.

    Presumably they are all taking ‘A’ Level Colouring In.

  3. Raymond Lesley
    Posted Tue Jul 3 2007 at 12:33 | Permalink

    Surely, the simple solution is to lower the pass grade … ;^P

  4. Tim
    Posted Tue Jul 3 2007 at 13:09 | Permalink

    Funny how no-one has ever thought of doing that…. …. …

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