Thursday, December 14, 2006
Scrybe shock
Scrybe over at thalondondiaries aka the camera with the hat is having fun with the joy that is Trevor Phillips. This is the bit I found shocking:
"In England, only 27% of Black Caribbean boys got five or more good GCSEs last year, considerably below the national average for boys of 46.8%."
If you don't get those 5 key A* - C grades at GCSE then you are more than a bit stuffed in life, though saying that you can be doing a postgrad and still be somewhat stuffed but that's by the by. If were are going to create the kind of tolerant and fair society that we want this has to be tackled. Hopefully with more alacrity than has been evident so far.
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"In England, only 27% of Black Caribbean boys got five or more good GCSEs last year, considerably below the national average for boys of 46.8%."
If you don't get those 5 key A* - C grades at GCSE then you are more than a bit stuffed in life, though saying that you can be doing a postgrad and still be somewhat stuffed but that's by the by. If were are going to create the kind of tolerant and fair society that we want this has to be tackled. Hopefully with more alacrity than has been evident so far.
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um, how did you know about the camera with the hat? I thought only a select band of ragamuffins knew about that!?!
yes folks, its true - I am nothing more than a camera and a hat. now you know why I make so many typos in my posts. and if you're all a nice bunch of girls and boys, I might just get Santa to release the evidence for this in the new year.
it's good to know I'm not the only one doing fuck all this afternoon. but I do have a huge pile of work.
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yes folks, its true - I am nothing more than a camera and a hat. now you know why I make so many typos in my posts. and if you're all a nice bunch of girls and boys, I might just get Santa to release the evidence for this in the new year.
it's good to know I'm not the only one doing fuck all this afternoon. but I do have a huge pile of work.
;-)
Your forgetting that I am a trainee political genius so I know these things.
According to my mum I knew all the capitals of Europe aged 5.
According to my mum I knew all the capitals of Europe aged 5.
pah, anyone can know all the capitals of europe by the age of five. being able to comopse a grammatically correct sentence by the time they are doing postgrad is, however, slightly more taxing. at least, judging by your comments above, it is.
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"anyone can know all the capitals of europe by the age of five."
But lets be frank they don't.
As for the grammar. All I can say is that I was educated under a Tory government.
But lets be frank they don't.
As for the grammar. All I can say is that I was educated under a Tory government.
lol, the one thing the tories ever did for us..........they gave us an excuse for all our educational failings. ;-)
oooo, I've created a new word - oborine. I say 'created' when what I mean is that's what the word verification is asking me to type. but I'm going to define it as "educational failings caused by the tories". although it does sound more like it should be the name of a character off the x-men.
oooo, I've created a new word - oborine. I say 'created' when what I mean is that's what the word verification is asking me to type. but I'm going to define it as "educational failings caused by the tories". although it does sound more like it should be the name of a character off the x-men.
I think you are probably right on it being an X men name but what would I know I'm just a vacant minded oborine.
In fact the lowest five deciles of the whole school population don't get their five good passes. This is pretty strongly correlated with wealth and socio-economic status. Black British youth are over-represented in the lower reahes of wealth and jobs and the higher reaches of multiple deprivation. The differential between boys and girls apply through the whole gamut. But if we had universal comprehensives and less testing like Finland we might expect results of the lowest 70% to improve drastically. I pointed this out to Blair at a Big Conversation event in 2004 but he is yet to change the government's unwise pursuit of "choice" instead of "quality" and "equality". I'm sure he'll be doing it soon. He did not dismiss me with the contempt usually reserved for facile Lib Dem questioners like Leech at PMQs. Really he didn't.
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