As part of Nanny's continued efforts to ensure that all pupils achieve 100%, thus ensuring that no one feels inferior, she has decreed that GCSE examiners should ignore mistakes in pupils' scripts in order to push resulting grades as high as possible. The policy is contained in a marking scheme for history, issued by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), it tells examiners never to reduce a mark "solely because of the existence of an error".
The AQA scheme says:
"If it is possible to ignore the mistake,
do so and pretend that it does not exist."
Un...bloody...believable!
How the hell does this help children prepare for working and interacting in the real world?
Life is unforgiving; the sooner children are made realise that, the better the chances they have of surviving life's slings and arrows.
This pussy policy of Nanny's does them no favours.
Nanny should be arrested for child abuse, as this will clearly have a negative impact on the natural growth and development of children.
But this is exactly how government minsters are assessed for keeping their jobs, so nanny probably doesn't see anything wrong with it!
ReplyDeleteWell, if its good for Nanny I canlt see why it would not work for me as well.
ReplyDeleteSo, a couple of extra noughts or a missing decimal point on one part of my next tax return and a couple of missing numbers somewhere else and I will be happy and Nanny's people can work according to their schooling and training.
Suits me.
PS - the pass code I have to use for this post is "thikk". :-)
Perfect and apposite.
Help. Nanny is starting to frighten me.
ReplyDeleteI dread one day being operated on by a surgeon who qualified by sitting a multiple choice test.
Actual question from this years final medical exam:
ReplyDeleteWhich of the following is the odd one out and how would you cure it ?
1) Huntingtons Chorea
2) Bells Palsy
3) Thompsons Gazelle
4) Tourettes Syndrome
As for the quality of todays education, I recently had to deal with several 16 year olds on work placement for a week. Two had an almost complete inability to spell anything containing more than three letters and a third had a grasp of basic maths that was somewhat less than an amoeba with learning difficulties...not particularly useful in a job which involves mathematical skills taking up 60% of the tasks and writing taking up the other 40%.
I'm not sure I want to know any more!
ReplyDeleteWonder if there's anyone in the country who can still manage to get a regular 10-min GP appointment? We haven't been able to do this for about 3 years now. All you can get is a 5-min (in practice it's usually about 2 mins) "emergency" appointment, whether it's an "emergency" or not.
Also don't remember the last time I saw a GP whose face I recognised.
Last time I had a 5-min locum GP "emergency" appointment, I ended up in A&E 2 days later.
The GP had prescribed medication that was "inadequate to the task".
That was 18 months ago. Fortunately I haven't needed to go back since.
Like I said, Nanny frightens me.
In relation to new doctors ..
ReplyDeleteI thought we could not afford the ones we have, though such a huge shaortage was claimed just a few years ago and hence the and rushed training, and are letting them go.
So why rush out even more (under)trained staff who, presumably, will have no employment to take up?
Will we ever learn?