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Education: UK
Dennis G. writes
Oz quoted The Ministry of Defence has had to offer remedial maths for applicants with a "C" (middle grade) in GCSE (age 15) maths because they found they were often baffled by fractions. Coventry University's tests have shown that a "B" grade in "A" level maths is about the same or worse than an "N" (fail) in 1991. This particular whinge has the longest legs in history. Every generation finds a reason to complain that they had a much better education than the current crop of students. Sometimes this is true, and sometimes false. In this case some evidence is given. the belief kept the teaching of Latin as a living language alive until long after the last Roman Emperor's final bacchanal. That was primarily because it continued as a lingua franca for centuries, particularly in universities which were derived from a Roman Catholic basis. So science moves forward with nanotech, wi-fi, genome analysis, cloning the bauteng, creating new materials and rightly ignores the critics. Let's take a small example. In my day (60's) calculus was expected if you were to achieve one of the higher A level grades in physics. No longer. When a test or experiment fails to represent reality, it is the testing that must change. Ah, you mean if the evidence disagrees with your view it must be destroyed. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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