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Offline Darwins Selection

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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2012, 05:38:41 PM »
Is she a fish wife then?
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2012, 05:47:01 PM »
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2012, 05:47:48 PM »
 point:
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2012, 05:50:03 PM »
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2012, 06:05:49 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger (Orderer of the Young's) on January 31, 2012, 05:15:08 PM
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
Quote from: miss Tchevious on January 31, 2012, 04:44:37 PM
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Ministers have cut the value of more than 3,100 vocational qualifications, ending their recognition in England's school league tables.

Courses such as a diploma in horse care can be worth the same as four GCSEs.

The government says this has created "perverse incentives" for schools to offer them and boost their position.

Clicky

I'm all for this... IMHO skools shouldn't be teaching horse care, arts, sport, health and social care, media, music to exam level anyway - concentrate on the basics FFS!  cussing:

I counldn't agree more. I have 10 gcses and 4 A levels all of high grades, and if I lived in the UK am qualified for F-all. noooo:

7 O-Levels and GCSE Metalwork....  angel1

GCSE? Aren't you too old or that?  rubschin:

CSE....  redface:
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2012, 06:10:48 PM »
Ackchooly, I am having a debate about this elsewhere. The general consensus is that this is a massive own goal for Gove and that we await an apologetic pile of stuff in due course. I hate NuLiebour but Twigg, Shadow Ed Secretary, needs info and I have been asked to give him some advice. Can't stand the little twat, but the ammunition here is just too easy to come by. The Beeb led on this today and the Daily Fail is triumphant. The whole thing is a pile of political shite. ALison WOlf (look her up) has been suckered  noooo:
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2012, 06:12:10 PM »
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 06:05:49 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger (Orderer of the Young's) on January 31, 2012, 05:15:08 PM
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
Quote from: miss Tchevious on January 31, 2012, 04:44:37 PM
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 09:11:02 AM
Quote from: BBC Web Shite
Ministers have cut the value of more than 3,100 vocational qualifications, ending their recognition in England's school league tables.

Courses such as a diploma in horse care can be worth the same as four GCSEs.

The government says this has created "perverse incentives" for schools to offer them and boost their position.

Clicky

I'm all for this... IMHO skools shouldn't be teaching horse care, arts, sport, health and social care, media, music to exam level anyway - concentrate on the basics FFS!  cussing:

I counldn't agree more. I have 10 gcses and 4 A levels all of high grades, and if I lived in the UK am qualified for F-all. noooo:

7 O-Levels and GCSE Metalwork....  angel1

GCSE? Aren't you too old or that?  rubschin:

CSE....  redface:

Completely Stoopid Equivalent?
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2012, 06:13:20 PM »
Quote from: miss Tchevious on January 31, 2012, 06:12:10 PM
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 06:05:49 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger (Orderer of the Young's) on January 31, 2012, 05:15:08 PM
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
Quote from: miss Tchevious on January 31, 2012, 04:44:37 PM
Quote from: Barman on January 31, 2012, 09:11:02 AM
Quote from: BBC Web Shite
Ministers have cut the value of more than 3,100 vocational qualifications, ending their recognition in England's school league tables.

Courses such as a diploma in horse care can be worth the same as four GCSEs.

The government says this has created "perverse incentives" for schools to offer them and boost their position.

Clicky

I'm all for this... IMHO skools shouldn't be teaching horse care, arts, sport, health and social care, media, music to exam level anyway - concentrate on the basics FFS!  cussing:

I counldn't agree more. I have 10 gcses and 4 A levels all of high grades, and if I lived in the UK am qualified for F-all. noooo:

7 O-Levels and GCSE Metalwork....  angel1

GCSE? Aren't you too old or that?  rubschin:

CSE....  redface:

Completely Stoopid Equivalent?

Probably....  cry:
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Offline Uncle Mort

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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2012, 06:17:21 PM »
Anyway...

My sprogs are deep in to their GCSEs at the moment. We attended a parent's evening recently to see how they're doing. Every teacher had a table covered in spreadsheets, tables and lists. Everything was target driven. My son's been getting Bs and all his his teachers were pleased with his "progress". A bit of delving and it seems that at some point he was graded as a "C" student. So getting Bs was seen as a sucess. The thing is that he's capable of better, he coasts along happy getting Bs without having to try. The message he gets is positive and the teachers get kudos for getting him a grade "better" than expected.

One telling point, The GCSE teachers were busy, parents queuing up to talk to them, the vocational teachers were sitting there twiddling their thumbs. Their pupils and parents hadn't bothered to turn up.
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2012, 06:20:48 PM »
That sounds familiar.

I have just had the Boy's half year skool report  cloud9:
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2012, 06:23:09 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on January 31, 2012, 06:17:21 PM
Anyway...

My sprogs are deep in to their GCSEs at the moment. We attended a parent's evening recently to see how they're doing. Every teacher had a table covered in spreadsheets, tables and lists. Everything was target driven. My son's been getting Bs and all his his teachers were pleased with his "progress". A bit of delving and it seems that at some point he was graded as a "C" student. So getting Bs was seen as a sucess. The thing is that he's capable of better, he coasts along happy getting Bs without having to try. The message he gets is positive and the teachers get kudos for getting him a grade "better" than expected.

One telling point, The GCSE teachers were busy, parents queuing up to talk to them, the vocational teachers were sitting there twiddling their thumbs. Their pupils and parents hadn't bothered to turn up.

I expect Bm got a lot of Bs comments too......... whistle:
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2012, 06:24:19 PM »
Quote from: Nick (GC First Class) on January 31, 2012, 06:20:48 PM
That sounds familiar.

I have just had the Boy's half year skool report  cloud9:

Good?
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2012, 06:27:46 PM »
Improved, shall we say  ::)
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2012, 06:34:03 PM »
I see.  noooo:

The problem with "targets" is that it's often easier to manipulate the figures than to actually meet those targets.
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Re: Most GCSE equivalents axed from school league tables
« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2012, 06:39:14 PM »
Nah. Narrative stuff. Brill at Maths, Music, English, Drama, Spanish, PE and then the rest "when he is interested"  noooo:

Hey, he is only 13, and they have started GCSEs  scared2:
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