The day dawned with promises of thunder and lightning. Both appeared shortly thereafter but I was so busy making what passes for breakfast that I did not notice. Soon after the rain passed on and the sun came in and out. This, the weather man says, is what we will have for the next few days. This is what they call summer time in England. The Pakistani cricketers will however be happy to see the game washed out down there in Southampton. Batting is not going their way and they will be hoping for more thunder and lightning, with accompanying rainstorms tomorrow. Other wise they will be wiped out.
The tragedy of yesterday has passed and the media and more concerned with England's 'A' level results being amended. While they decried the SNP government for their 25% amendments yesterday in Scottish 'Higher' results they now grumble at England's 35% amendments, which is much worse. Also by amending the Scots results the changes ensured the Education results produced the best results for many days. The Conservatives now grumble at this... Will they do the same in England? Such things are more important than train crashes.
However, whatever the results, whatever the grades, do these actually help the kid get somewhere? Allowing for the lack of work as it is, with Brexit and Virus bringing more losses to the workforce, just what is the point of education? I can understand some folks learning subjects they wish to pursue but I wonder how many are just collecting pass marks that they will never use again? Education ought to prepare us for the real working world, does it do that these days?
Train crashes that produce several deaths are given much publicity, even though I think the last death in similar circumstances was back in 2004. However most counties report around four or five deaths on the roads each month, about 30 - 50 a year, yet no-one appears to bothered. What does this tell us?
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Technical education has always been unfairly neglected...and with the demise of apprenticeships no wonder there is a dearth of good tradesmen. Ally that to Blair's shiny promises of university for all resulting in every second rate college in creation announcing itself to be a university and you do wonder if the majority of courses are not futile attempts at money raising to keep vice chancellors in the luxury to which they think they are entitled.
Should you be watching the cricket, could you tell me whether or not one of the batsmen is wearing his protective gear outside his trousers?
Fly, Chancellors at such places do appear to make an awfu lot of money! Not sure about batsmen, every time I looked it was a different one!
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