Post AxBjTtjpPukCV5uyxM by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
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(DIR) Post #AxBejUrr9YYKEEI9om by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2025-08-15T06:05:02Z
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If as many argue the UK's education system has been too focussed on academic subjects & needs (like Germany for instance) to raise the status of vocational qualifications, the rise in the relatively new T-Levels (vocational alternative to A-levels) looks like good news.Its also worth noting that the non-completion rate looks worse than it is as student can elect to take courses over longer than the 'normal' two year period... something many young carers & workers may do.#workers #education
(DIR) Post #AxBejWB2HjUMI0GzLs by chris@mitra.northumbria.me
2025-08-15T06:19:28.927295Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 On the BBC news they also said that quite a lot of "drop outs" decided to continue working at a placement, and epending on your point of view getting someone a position in the industry they were interested in it not really a complete failure.
(DIR) Post #AxBejXN7qGklzmw9po by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-08-15T07:34:54Z
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@chris @ChrisMayLA6 Shortening education, and providing more focus on vocational training is an excellent idea to improve society! In sweden, many decades ago, the socialists decided that if you havea degree, you'll automatocally have a job, and started a campaign to get everyone to university. This only served to lower the quality of university education, and strain their resources. Today the EU has increase bachelors degrees from 3 years to 4 (in sweden) and master from 4 to 6. Instead
(DIR) Post #AxBeoPBXhwvo3JqAi0 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-08-15T07:35:51Z
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@chris @ChrisMayLA6 we should go back to 3 and 4 years, perhaps start children a year earlier in school, so they come out of the system earlier ready to work, and add more resources to vocational training. A person does not need a masters degree for a fulfilling life, this is a modern myth.
(DIR) Post #AxBfHf5Zeo0Jm701Fg by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2025-08-15T07:41:06Z
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@h4890 @chris Interestingly the Dutch do almost the exact opposite & seemingly have some of the most well-adjusted children in the world....
(DIR) Post #AxBfhEAKNcaNnqPhDM by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-08-15T07:45:45Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @chris Well-adjusted is good, but what about the age when they first enter the work force? I am convinced you can have children starting school at 5 or 6, and still enter the work force well adjusted at the age of 21 or 22 with a bachelors degree under their belt, or even earlier with vocational training.
(DIR) Post #AxBjTtjpPukCV5uyxM by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2025-08-15T08:28:07Z
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@h4890 @chris Yes, I'm sure that is true for some - the hey to it (which is lacking in the UK) is a variable approach to education that can respond & support both children' different interests, and their varying learning styles... too many systems are too uniform in their approach to get the best for & from all children
(DIR) Post #AxBkCobdLRzHcAVGL2 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-08-15T08:36:17Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @chris This is true, but also very expensive. To me it sounds like only the private sector will be able to provide individualized education like that. And about learning styles, I heard/read some years ago that it is a modern myth. I have no idea, but it was something that just stuck in my mind. I have always preferred to read, and when someone speaks (if I don't take notes) I don't remember anything an hour afterwards. So audio is not for me.
(DIR) Post #AxBllMB18VTPX45Wuu by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2025-08-15T08:53:40Z
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@h4890 @chris Possibly *very* expensive but a massive investment in the future?On learning styles; as an educator & also with lots of friends who are teachers, its clear to us all that whatever the terminology, the differing ways of learning proposed by 'Learning Styles' is easily identifiable amongst out students (from primary to university levels).... the theoreticians may for may not have got the contours right but the overall idea remains empirically right!
(DIR) Post #AxF5x3emOqnK7skJk0 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-08-16T23:24:04Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @chris Looking at how I learn myself, I agree that there is a prefered way of learning. Logically, we are individuals with different traits and preferences, and why should this not be reflected in learning too? But that makes this "find" even more mysterious. Maybe "there are no learning styles" is some kind of modern myth? I've heard it being repeated fairly often here and there.
(DIR) Post #AxFk77oLnyio4aZtWy by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2025-08-17T06:54:03Z
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@h4890 @chris Yes, of course you're right, learning is an individual issue, but what learning styles as a model does is suggest there is a broad typology, and for different (albeit groups with variances within them) there may be different preferred & most effective approaches.... the key issue is its an argument against a one-style-fits-all educational model, which is what you see in UK schools, driven by (not least) a priority to generate comparable data, not educated children