E-Bacc

[An_Inspector_Calls]

I'm just off to abseil from the roof .................

(eer you can't do a GCSE in "outdoor pursuits")

you can also do maths, english , history etc "at home"

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GCSE_subjects

Now just pop out for a walk.

[MrGongGong]

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GCSE_subjects

Now just pop out for a walk.

Can you show me a link to the syllabus please ?

Simply listing a wikipedia link is one way of failing Media Studies ............

(there is , of course, PE )

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Can you show me a link to the syllabus please ?

Simply listing a wikipedia link is one way of failing Media Studies ............

(there is , of course, PE )

No, so why not do some work on that yourself? You've plenty of spare time.

[MrGongGong]

No, so why not do some work on that yourself? You've plenty of spare time.

I'm a bit busy today
I have to learn the Periodic Table

[gingerjon]

I'm a bit busy today
I have to learn the Periodic Table

We should all do that - recently discovered elements were added to the table as recently as May 2012.

[aeolium]

I have to learn the Periodic Table

This isn't a bad way (but others may well have been "discarvard").

[MrGongGong]

I'm thinking about starting a campaign in support of "irrelevant education"

as a counter to the current fashion for trying to turn learning into a set of supposedly "useful" skills that one can use in a "job"
because as we all know (don't we ?) the only thing of any value is something one does for someone else that they will pay you for .........

failing that
a campaign to get Ken Robinson to come back to the UK and take over education

[teamsaint]

I'm thinking about starting a campaign in support of "irrelevant education"

as a counter to the current fashion for trying to turn learning into a set of supposedly "useful" skills that one can use in a "job"
because as we all know (don't we ?) the only thing of any value is something one does for someone else that they will pay you for .........

failing that
a campaign to get Ken Robinson to come back to the UK and take over education

Ken who? isn't he a loony lefty with funny way out ideas?
We don't want nutters like that in charge with their so called "ideas" !!
Might get people thinking, and that is very dangerous....

Here he is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Don't watch this if you like things the way there are...

[MrGongGong]

Some of you might be bothered enough to sign this

http://www.baccforthefuture.com/index.html

This is one of Kens best methinks teams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

WHY can't people who think be involved with what happens ??

[teamsaint]

Some of you might be bothered enough to sign this

http://www.baccforthefuture.com/index.html

This is one of Kens best methinks teams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

WHY can't people who think be involved with what happens ??

Because if you have people who think, and believe in thinking,at the top, you risk having people thinking all over the place?
If I were dave, I would worry if I thought people were going around thinking.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well ebacc is just cheaper innit .... and if you want culture, real literacy you can buy it or go to an academy ... which are now transfer costing the bog standard comps because there is an inconvvenient £1bn overspend on that pet project of Gove's for the lower middle classes Academies ... that fixes the tory vote eh ...

[teamsaint]

If you signed the e petition thing, you should have received, or shortly receive an email, which is asking for submissions explicitly supporting a 6th pillar of Arts. Or something.

working on the assumption that gove won't like it, I sent one.

[MrGongGong]

Today is the last day of the "consultation" (though I'm not sure that they are really bothered what anyone else thinks at all )

http://www.baccforthefuture.com/index.html

[DracoM]

Is there any indication as to how many have signed up?

[MrGongGong]

There are

34,212 signatories to the petition