[LuhLah]

I'm bored in the car so I thought I'd make this up.

Anyway, everyone's heard about it, but it seems that noone really knows what it's about.

If I've got it right, the goverment are reforming the current system to make it more relevant to real life and develop skills like communication, numeracy, social awareness etc...

Standard Grades and the Ints will be replaced with National 4s and 5s, where National 4s will be assessed internally and will be the same standard as General level, and National 5s will be assessed externally like the Credit exam.

Subjects like English, the sciences, computing etc will be reformed and updated.

Highers will be seen as the 'gold' standard.

I don't know what to think of it really, as I hope to be free from SQAland come August What are your opinions on it?

If anyone has a better explaination then please post it here, or PM me it so I can edit it in. You can get more info here.

[Heather with the Weather]

It looks like a load of rubbish if you ask me and I can see it failing easily.

[Delaney]

It's a load of *****. How are schools meant to buy new resources if the government aren't giving them more money?

[Dado Prso]

Seems a good idea but it will difficult to implement properly. If the final exam for actually deciding the grade is the same in these National 4+5s as it is in SG General/Credit then I think loads of teachers will just ignore that curriculum for excellence exists. Doesn't help that people don't know what it actually is apart from encouraging cross-curricular learning.

I got this leaflet through the door the other day : http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/...cm4-600701.pdf

What a lot of crap it is. "Physics has moved on from learning the electromagnetic spectrum to understand forces, electricity and waves." Should put stuff which is actually informative in these leaflets rather than writing nonsense like that.

Teachers marking the national 4s seems like a cost cutting measure too. It means there will be some bias marking which will lead to better results and curriculum for excellence can be branded a success though.

[Curious George]

They probably have best intentions at heart...

yet its not going to work as all the teachers already hate it.

[TheUnbeliever]

Meet the new ****, same as the old ****.

[derangedyoshi]

Can we talk about primary here too? My dad's a primary teacher and he is 100% against it. The ideas are bad and are not properly thought through. He doesn't know how he's supposed to teach it as no one has made sure people understand it, but he'll have to teach it from August - in fact I think he might be making a token effort just now, not sure. The whole idea of marking a piece of work and having a comment but not an actual mark is pathetic - when will the marks come in? When people sit the new equivalent of SG/Int 2 and suddenly realise that they can't do a subject, but they haven't been told this yet because of PCness? It's a train wreck to be.

[ninja-lewis]

I get the impression that it might be suitable in primary but almost certainly unsuitable for secondary. Hence primary union heads telling secondary union heads to quit whining.

[C274]

******* who thinks this is a good idea needs a slap round the head. You can't put a cross next to work that's wrong anymore, what kind of thick **** thought that one up? The ***** who come up with this ***** haven't taught in 20odd years so have no idea what the **** they're doing anymore.

(Original post by derangedyoshi)
My dad's a primary teacher

Mine too

[Bipolar Dipole]

for anyone who's confused.