http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 23 May 2013 14:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/24/after-results-day-are-uk-teenagers-driven-enough/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/24/after-results-day-are-uk-teenagers-driven-enough/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:00:09 +0000 Nyima Pratten http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27751 Official figures released yesterday show that the proportion of GCSEs awarded at least a C grade has fallen for the first time in the exam’s history.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/24/after-results-day-are-uk-teenagers-driven-enough/feed/ 6 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/22/just-about-everything-that%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-education-today/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/22/just-about-everything-that%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-education-today/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:00:08 +0000 Jack Foden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27668 The current education system, under the impression the youth of Britain epitomize stupidity, seems to consist of a condescending series of spoon-feeding stages in a one-dimensional standardisation of children. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/22/just-about-everything-that%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-education-today/feed/ 7 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/20/why-bother-changing-the-gcses/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/20/why-bother-changing-the-gcses/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:00:24 +0000 Jack Foden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27548 If you wish to change something, abolish exams completely, instead of making them more stressful for us.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/20/why-bother-changing-the-gcses/feed/ 24 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/time-to-cancel-the-end-of-term/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/time-to-cancel-the-end-of-term/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:26:06 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25850 British school children are in school for just a few hours five days a week for around 38/40 weeks a year. It really doesn’t add up to very much overall so why do we allow so much of that precious time to be wasted?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/time-to-cancel-the-end-of-term/feed/ 45 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/more-rigorous-exams-that-more-people-pass/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/more-rigorous-exams-that-more-people-pass/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:12:14 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25721 Graham Stuart, Conservative MP and chairman of the Education select committee, intervened in Michael Gove's speech yesterday to say that The Secretary of State wants more rigorous exams that more people pass.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/more-rigorous-exams-that-more-people-pass/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/29/gcses-are-a-pointless-waste-of-time/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/29/gcses-are-a-pointless-waste-of-time/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 01:04:23 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24706 A few facts. Last year almost 70% of 16 year olds achieved at least 5 GCSE passes with grades A*-C. And 58% of GCSE sitters got 5 good passes including English and maths.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/29/gcses-are-a-pointless-waste-of-time/feed/ 64 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/06/hey-unis-leave-our-exams-alone/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/06/hey-unis-leave-our-exams-alone/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:47:31 +0000 Helen Crane http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23044 As a student from a middling state school approaching the end of my time in higher education, I think A-level examinations set by university lecturers could be seriously damaging for both the aspirations and the achievements of those at less successful schools.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/06/hey-unis-leave-our-exams-alone/feed/ 66