civilisationReview

Exams regulator Ofqual has confirmed the changes it is making to GCSEs, in what it calls the biggest shake-up of exams in England for a generation. A new grading system will use numbers instead of letters and coursework is being scrapped for most subjects. - bbc (following comments from BBC facebook discussion ) ed: Memory over analysis, research and working together on intellectual and creative tasks? Right, that's what it takes to vote in wrong governments all the time.....and play Angry Birds. * Habibah Amin : This is actually very annoying. Every bloody term we have news Michael Gove's doing something different. Please Mr. Gove, go and get some experience teaching or go try and focus into the mindset of someone my age! At the end of the day it is NOT fair on the people of my age and younger. I would do a better job than Michael Gove for sure. He claims he wants "...the best for the youth of today...", yet - he's making it worse! If you look back on the strike...

"American parents looking to send their children to the world’s best schools might want to start looking East. And by that, we don’t mean the East Coast. East Asia is now home to the world’s best primary and secondary schools, producing students who are able to outperform their counterparts in the Western world, according to a recent report from the Grattan Institute, a think tank based in Australia. - Wall Street Journal " ed’s comment at WSJ: I come from singapore, and i can say that they are ‘superior’ in the sense of being able to learn formulae, memorise, and regurgitate. But as innovative, inventive, and out-of-the-box thinkers, from my experience, a mediocre student in the UK beats the ‘superior’ students of the east. It is the socio-cultural experience that enables one to make more of education as opposed to education serving as a ceiling. In that, the UK for example, beats the straight ‘As’ of the east. At the end of the day, it is the social curriculum that adds val...