[DylanBrain]

What do you think needs to be done about the education system in Britain?
How can it be improved?
Do we need to bring in stricter teachers?
Do we need to bring in vocational courses to suit and motivate everyone?
Do we need to abolish independent schools and create mixed ability teaching to give everybody equality of opportunity?
Should we privatise the educational system in order to make them compete like businesses and push up standards?

How do you think it can be improved?

Note: I am proud of the educational system in Britain, I would just like to see peoples opinion on how to improve it.

[Dolanja]

One thing that annoys me is all the uproar in the media about education. If a lot of people get high grades in GCSEs and A-Levels, then obviously the education system is too easy, and needs to be harder. If the tests are too hard, we have a failing education system, and it's all the teachers/education departments fault. There's never any middle ground when it's perfect. A-Level results improve all the time, and it's treated like a bad thing.

[Pitt1988]

I think finding how kids learn better as individuals, not just program them to remember a series of facts and figures to be regurgitated at a later date. Also, much more needs to be taught about actual LIFE, most people that come out of school don't have a bloody clue about how to live, balance finances and all that crap.

I also think creativity isn't very well embraced.

[DylanBrain]

(Original post by Pitt1988)
I think finding how kids learn better as individuals, not just program them to remember a series of facts and figures to be regurgitated at a later date. Also, much more needs to be taught about actual LIFE, most people that come out of school don't have a bloody clue about how to live, balance finances and all that crap.

I also think creativity isn't very well embraced.

I agree, we should push academic students towards academic subjects so they can improve their talents

but also should push non academic students towards non academic subjects. This works and I don't know why it isn't in many schools.
Whilst I was doing my GCSEs they put on an engineering diploma, a lot of non academic students took this subject, bearing in mind the kids who did it were very anti school, they thoroughly enjoyed it. They gained a qualification relevant to them and the line of work they wanted to go into.

We need to include and advertise these alternative options a lot more because this is where we are failing. If you are not academic your a failure and this isn't how it should be. Creativity should be embraced and given a higher status.

[Classical Liberal]

(Original post by DylanBrain)
What do you think needs to be done about the education system in Britain?

Get government out of the supply of education and just allow government to finance it.

How can it be improved?

Educational school vouchers.

Do we need to bring in stricter teachers?

Depends. Let people decide.

Do we need to bring in vocational courses to suit and motivate everyone?

Depends. Let people decide.

Do we need to abolish independent schools and create mixed ability teaching to give everybody equality of opportunity?

No. Equal opportunity is a nonsense anyway. Suppose we gave everybody the same education, that would be 'equal'. But some people would thrive under the one system and others would suffer. And with another top down system it might work the other way around. That is hardly fair, that we pick an arbitrary system that is good for some and not good for others.

We should try to create a system that is unequal and different as possible. We want to have system that is dynamic, with lots of choice, so that people have the best chance of getting what is best for them.

It is not about 'equal' opportunity. It is about doing what is best for each individual child.

Should we privatise the educational system in order to make them compete like businesses and push up standards?

Yes. Just have money attached to students and let the market mechanism do what it does best.

[DylanBrain]

(Original post by Classical Liberal)
Get government out of the supply of education and just allow government to finance it.



Educational school vouchers.



Depends. Let people decide.



Depends. Let people decide.



No. Equal opportunity is a nonsense anyway. Suppose we gave everybody the same education, that would be 'equal'. But some people would thrive under the one system and others would suffer. And with another top down system it might work the other way around. That is hardly fair, that we pick an arbitrary system that is good for some and not good for others.

We should try to create a system that is unequal and different as possible. We want to have system that is dynamic, with lots of choice, so that people have the best chance of getting what is best for them.

It is not about 'equal' opportunity. It is about doing what is best for each individual child.



Yes. Just have money attached to students and let the market mechanism do what it does best.

I especially agree with your point that it should be made dynamic with loads of different choices and options so that everybody can strive on their talents.