Previously on this blog, I had said what I thought about what could be on a child's curriculum vitae at the age of 18 or 19 to differentiate them from going to Oxford or Cambridge over another child. That difference is pretty obvious to me; it is the fact that one child may have gone to a private school, whilst the other may have gone to a State school. Now another development had occured whereby school league tables are in question. People have realised that a school offering Needlework, Basket-weaving and Country Dancing at A Levels are now getting the same places within the league tables as those offering harder edged subjects. I could have told them that ten or more years ago.
I would relate a little story about teaching Business Studies at HND Level at a London College; so flustered were they at having to do this that they let go their one business studies lecturer. Therefore I had to finish the whole class off for their HND Level 2 and give them their final gradings. The thanks I got from that particular college was that they were never going to do Business Studies again because it was not their "thing".
Thats one of the reasons why these bankers are getting away with blue murder; because no-one does hard edged subjects. We all want to do pretty subjects that have no relevance to the real world. I mean, why do Law, Accounts, Physics, Medicine, etc when you can do Media Studies?
The net result of all this absolute nonsense is that you have a country which is financially illiterate and a Chancellor of the Exchequer who employs an accountant to fill in his tax returns.
Dont think so somehow.
