Rishi Sunak considers radical shake-up of A-levels

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Rishi needs to start at the most impactive educational level rather than A levels - Primary school teaching is crucial (teaching numeracy in mental Maths and English) Not teaching basic skills to students at 18 years of age when it becomes a progressive 'detention' - If the basic skills are taught properly in primary school there would not be a need to reteach them at 18. English and Maths training fails at primary school level. This has to be radically changed right now to cope with future educational uncertainty. Self teaching with e-learning is important to be ready for future strikes and further pandemics, but only if enough forethought has gone into preparing those online sessions. This back up is only accessible if students can read and understand them in the first place.

If a child can read using phonetics at the age of 7 they can read any text going forward, even if you might not understand all of the words. If you can read you can learn to skim read and power through texts ready for further education and high school. If you are taught how to construct paragraphs and how to use English grammar you don't need continual English (or Maths) lessons at age 18 to top up failed primary level teachings - It is the educationalists and their rigid learning and teaching systems that have not kept pace with sudden changing times.

If you can understand maths (addition, subtraction and multiplication, areas, angles etc) you can undertake most manual jobs. Do you really need a degree? You can be employed in sales and services and not flounder like a dead fish when the electronic till doesn't tell you how much change to give someone - if you have the skills you can immediately calculate it in your head.

It is far cheaper for the Government to keep school leavers in education (whether they need it our not) and cheaper still to encourage them to get any old degree at their expense.

Successive UK Government's have allowed educationalists and their 'expert' policies to destroy a very good system of education. Either these actions are deliberate or ignorant. So which is it?

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Gazpacho.

Original post by Muttly

Who will have the back bone to do what is needed in the face of so much left wing outrage.

To be fair, the left are entirely justified in being outraged at the damage the right have done to the education system and the country in general over the last 13 years.

The Conservatives are not going to assuage that anger when school buildings are literally falling apart.