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Selection By Stealth Or Simple Common Sense by Xavier Connolly.
The comprehensive education system has become one of the sacred cows of the "progressive left" in spite of its very obvious failure. The old Grammar School system only segregated on grounds of intelligence whereas the system now with its postcode lottery and the growth of private schools for the rich segregates on grounds of parental wealth, social class and geogrphic location. Intelligence does not enter the equation. So the selective way was more egalitarian, what are the leftie whiners on about.

Selection By Stealth Or Simple DCommon Sense
by Xavier Connolly.
2010-07-24
CREATIVE COMMONS: Attribute, non commercial, no derivs.
KEYWORDS: school, schools, pupil, pupils, grammar, comprehensive, intelligence, class, wealth, education, qualifications, politics, government, coalition

The Education Minister in the coalition government Michael Gove was accused yesterday of introducing a policy that will allow schools to select pupils A leaked government document questioned the future of the admissions code that stops schools favouring children they believe are more likely to produce better results.

Oh horror of horrors. Selecting pupils? That will only lead to the destruction of comprehensive education, the production line education system created by Labour and their politically correct left wing apparatchiks in the academic environment with the sole aim of churning out streams of identical, unthinking, state dependent Labour voters.

What the fuck is wrong with selection. In schools now, and I am a lecturer in a local college so I'm qualified to comment, we have a culture of anti intellectualism. The pupils who want to learn, who are bookish, quiet, introverted, sensitive, ginger haired, in any way different tend to have a miserable time. The yobs rule and the staff pander to them for the sake of a quiet life.

What was wrong with the old Grammar Schools when the intelligent, the top fifteen or twenty percent were segregated and encouraged to perform according to their ability. Did such an education do either myself, John or Ian any harm? More to the point did it do our friends any harm to attend a "Secondary Modern." Many of them went on to do well in life, some did not do so well but the same can be said of our old classmates.

One former colleague of mine, Ollie Chadwick was always one of the brightest boys in our year. He did not go to University, many pupils leaving grammar school with A levels in the 1960s did not. I don't know what went wrong for Ollie but he died a few years ago, just turned sixty, a shambling wreck, an alcoholic and compulsive gambler who, at the end of an afternoon in the bookies was always trying to beg a pound so he could by a loaf of bread and eat.

A boy who lived a short walk from where I grew up but in the council houses, is a millionaire now. He did not go to grammar school being of a more practical mindset. The phrase "good with hands" would have featured on his school reports. He was not bad at business either and is a millionaire now with a second hand car showroom and a solid engineering firm that specialises in making engine parts for classic cars. He served a technical apprenticeship in the aircraft industry but the skills he gained there and the academic knowledge gained through day release and night school equipped him to combine his love of cars with his skills as an engineer.

I know a young man, Ian knows him much better having watched him draw his first breaths, who is a brilliant musician and artist but at school was always a thoughtful, sensitive boy. One of his former teachers, now dead, was an old friend of mine. He told me of that lad, "He has a brilliant brain and is a really gifted artist. If ever there was a boy who should have gone to grammar school it is him. But he struggled to survive in the comprehensive system, he was bullied, attracted more bullying by trying to appeal to the little thugs and then tried to survive by becoming the clown, the dunce. Then in the fourth year he changed.

I know what happened. His Dad finally got though to him the notion that you have to defend yourself. And believe me a young man could have no better teacher than our Ian, intelligent, cultured and rather short though he is. There is no point trying to reason with morons, they only understand violence. By that time however that young man's school career had been ruined.

The price we have paid for the incessant experiments in social engineering in education is so visible in the classes I teach now. So many late developers, people taking Vocational and External Degree courses at the college as they work part time or are supported by a partner, so many of them with good brains, so many, when they can be coaxed into talking, with the same story to tell: "If you were good in school, if you enjoyed lessons and were keen to learn you were the outsider. You had no mates, you were the creep, the weirdo."

So many of them are people who should have gone to the Grammar School or Technical College. To be in an environment where people wrere not queers or homos or mentalists because they liked to read books or would rather sit with a sketchbook or practice a musical instrument than play football or go out with a gang looking for trouble"

So what is so bad about selection. It does not segregate by class or income as the current system does. It reduces segregation, promotes social mobility. Pupils are allowed to develop in their own way, at their own pace. Highflyers at school like Ollie do not always develop into successful adults. Others do not reveal their full potential until in their twenties of thirties. We need a system that educates individuals rather than trying to create clones.

Coalition Education Plans Selection By Stealth - Balls

Technical Schools To Be RevivedTens of thousands of children will be able to abandon academic study at 14 to undertake vocational training under plans unveiled last night.Up to 70 technical schools teaching youngsters practical skills from bricklaying to fashion are to be opened within the next five years. The scheme is one of the most radical shake-ups of the education system since ...
Graduate Tax Would Deter Many From University EducationAs the public sector debt crisis forces the coalition to cut the Universities budget Ian R Thorpe wades into the argument about university education as a right and tuition fees ...
More Graduates, Less Graduate JobsAll the while Labour were in power they kept muttering about the knowledge economy as if simply having attained a University degree was a marketable asset. In reality were were spending fortunes on educating people to be call centre clerks, shelf fillers and burger flippers. Now the coalition must find a way to deal with the problem of having too many graducates in areas that offer no jobs.
Are A Levels Only For Thickos? Private School Headmaster Says Yes.
The A level results published last week show a record percentage of pupils passing for the 28th year running. Is this really due to the wonders of our education system and the success of state schools. Or is it that exams have beome so easy to pass 97 per cent of pupils succeed. And why are top private schools dropping the A level curriculum in favour of the international baccalaureate?
More Graduates, Less Graduate Jobs
Vince Cable the coalition government's minister responsible for business and higher education has kicked off the biggest shake up in University financing in the past four decades. Since the vast and rapid expansion of higher education begun bt the Wilson government in the 1960 there has been constant growth in University funding, the number of University places available and the ...

The Pursuit Of Mediocrity by fatsally.SATS test, introduced in 1993, were supposed to meaure a pupil's progress through the education system from junior to senior school and ensure every child was fulfilling their potential. Now we see the government constantly lowering standards in order to ensure enough pupils from each school are reaching government imposed targets.

Is It Time To Ban Maths From Schools?Academics and politicians are always banging on about how school pulpils have no interest in maths and science. They blame everybody but themselves of course. When you get down to it, maybe the way Maths and Science are taught in schools is to blame. Or maybe it is the nerds who teach it and try to infect pupils with their own irrational enthusiasm for the uttrly pointless that has made these subjects so uncool.

No Child Left Behind - Just Ł800 millionEverybody has been feeling the pinch this past couple of years so just think how well off we would all be if this government stopped wasting our money! Each party is suggesting the other will bring in the more savage cuts to public spending. But they don't have to cut any necessary spending at all, just stop wasting the money we bung into the kitty via our tax on stupid schemes thought up by The Politically Correct Thought Police...
by fatsally

Mr. Bollocks Goes To Cookery ClassToday our education correspondent, N.E. Teecher, was invited along with the press corps to observe with Education Minister Ed. Bollocks a modern New Labour New Cookery lesson The school visit was part of the Education Ministers new initiative to improve the way the general public and especially chioldren eat by teaching pupils how to cook.

Bleep Till You Drop - Labour's Plan To Stop Children Getting FatThe Labour Government's obsession with meddling n the minutiae of individuals lives grows as Labour's eviction from power becomes more inevitable. Their lastest propsal for social enginering, launched health minister Liam Donaldson, is a plan to use military style bleep tests in schools to indentify pupils who are unfit and likely to become obese. This piece of social enginerring or let's be honest and call it eugenics, is aimed at eliminating obese or overweight people from the population but sounds more like something that would be more appropriate in Guantanamo Bay than a Junior School in Britain.
The Whining AcademyWhining seems to have become a national sport. Politicians spend their time whining about the public's lack of respect for them except for when they are busy embezzling public funds, cutting cash for influence deals with fake lobbyists, sucking up to dodgy donors, fiddling their expenses or boffing their secretaries.

B Sc in Stating The Bleeding Obvious.

The failure of education is not because kids are getting dumber, stuff is getting harder to learn, the internet is a distraction or parents are less co-operative. It is because education in schools is run by idioys who can't see what's staring them in the efffing face.
Killing History.The government constantly whines that not enough pulips in their later school years take up sciences. The government itself however is pushing history off the curriculum. So as they strip the nation's young people of a sense who they are and destroy the national culture inthe name of diversity and multiculturalism can they complain if those young people feel alienated and do not wish to contribute positively to the national community.

Sex Education KerfuffleSex education in schools is always a provocative topic, on the one hand religious groups think there should be none, on the other the Politically Correct Thought Police believe there should be lots, with practical demonstrations. And what can government officials do when caught between the two sides? Turn somersaults?

SATS - The Science Of Dumbing DownThe government and education academics have been obsessing about SATS tests for a long time, believing intelligence can be measured by examination results. All this pseudo - scientific bullshit has achieved is a meaurable dumbing down through a teaching to test mentality in which exam results give a false impression of school leavers intelligence.

A Clockwork GCSE Exam PaperRepeated complaints from bosses suggest school exams in English have become too easy. But is this true or are examiners simply testing not so much on formal grammar as English like wot it is spoke?
by fatsally

NVQ In RetailUniversity education is not for everyone. Some people are not happy in the academic environment and yearn to get into the workplace. Why are such people who have a go - getting attitude rather than a dossing around listening to Coldlay albums attitude treated so dismissively by the careers service and other government agencies then.
Looks Like A Job For …… BICYCLE REPAIR MAN!One of my favourite Monty Python sketches though it is remembered by few other people which may prove I am more of a Python geek than I thought, featured a Superhero called Bicycle Repair Man. A bike mechanic superhero? you might well ask...
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University guide 2013: Nottingham Trent University

Our at-a-glance guide to Nottingham Trent University

NTU is one of the largest universities in the country, with more than 25,000 students. It has a diverse international community, with students from over 104 countries. Courses are spread over three campuses: one in the city centre, another four miles away in Clifton, and a third in the Brackenhurst countryside, about 14 miles out of town.

The university has close links with more than 6,000 employers across the world; most courses are vocational and many students spending up to a year on work placements. The employment rate is excellent, with 94% of graduates employed or in further study six months after leaving.

NTU has invested more than ÂŁ130m in its three campuses over the past decade. This includes ÂŁ90m on the regeneration of two grade II listed buildings, Newton and Arkwright, at the heart of the City site. This development has won multiple awards from the Royal Institute of British
Architects. Their green-estates strategy has also helped them rank as the most environmentally friendly university in the country.

Nottingham has something for everyone. If shopping is your thing, then there is a wide range of independent boutiques as well as all the major chains. The newly built Nottingham Contemporary has hosted exhibitions from major players such as David Hockney and, in 2011, was chosen to open the British Arts Show. There are two major theatres, a handful of cinemas, a wide variety of professional sports teams, and some of the UK's best nightlife and live music venues.

Fees
ÂŁ8,500 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries
In 2012-13, NTU scholarships of ÂŁ1,400 and 568 National Scholarships of ÂŁ3,000 are available to eligible students. Both are paid in each academic year (up to three years) in the form of a fee reduction.

Accommodation
All new students who have NTU as their first choice are guaranteed an offer of university-allocated accommodation. Self-catering accommodation ranges from ÂŁ74 to ÂŁ142 a week.

Facilities
Recent investment across all three campuses has seen a major rise in the quality of facilities on offer. Developments include a sports centre endorsed by golfer Lee Westwood, a science Superlab, new libraries and 24-hour computer rooms. By 2013, there will also be a brand new student union building with bars, shops and a 2,000-capacity music venue.

Transport
The city centre is easily accessible due to the great rail, tram and road links, and an award-winning Unilink bus service between City and Clifton campuses. East Midlands airport is nearby, offering cheap flights across Europe. The university runs a popular cycle hire scheme across all three campuses.

Contact
Tel: 0115 941 8418
Email: ask.ntu@ntu.ac.uk
Web: ntu.ac.uk
Accommodation: accommodation@ntu.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:30:00 GMT

University guide 2013: Liverpool John Moores University

Our at-a-glance guide to Liverpool John Moores University

Established in 1825, Liverpool John Moores University is proud of its reputation for recruiting students from all walks of life and today attracts people from more than 100 countries worldwide. Its World of Work programme sums up its commitment to ensuring that every student graduates with the skills, experience and knowledge to succeed professionally. Set up in collaboration with FTSE 100 companies and leading business organisations, such as Airbus, CBI, Ford Europe, NHS, Marks & Spencer and Sony, World of Work is delivered as part of every undergraduate course. Links with regional and local employers mean students have access to a range of work placements, internships and other work-related opportunities.

Liverpool is a fun place to be a student and it's fairly cheap for a big urban centre. With three large campuses in the city, you're never far from a university base.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

ÂŁ4,000 for the foundation year of any course with an integral foundation year.

Bursaries
If you are in your first year in 2012-13 and your household income is ÂŁ25,000 or less a year, you will qualify for a non-repayable bursary of ÂŁ500 for each year of your course. You can spend this bursary as you wish - towards your everyday living costs, to pay off part of your tuition fees or to reduce the amount of student loan that you take out. LJMU bursaries are paid automatically to eligible students - you do not need to apply for them.

A range of scholarships and bursaries will accompany the new fees in 2012-13. For details, visit ljmu.ac.uk/feesandfunding/119234.htm

Accommodation
Guaranteed for all first-years, including those who apply through clearing. Self-catering halls range from ÂŁ69 to ÂŁ114 a week.

Facilities
LJMU's three campus-based learning resource centres combine traditional library facilities with everything you'd expect from a modern university: social learning zones, pods for group work, WiFi access throughout, 24/7 opening, loads of computers and on-site staff to answer queries on every aspect of student life.

Riba-award-winning art and design academy, new life and sciences building with world-class laboratories, indoor running track and body scanner. With industry-standard TV and radio studios, the new ÂŁ37m Redmonds building will open in 2012, housing the faculty of arts, professional and social studies, including the Liverpool screen school.

LJMU's Centre for Entrepreneurship supports students and graduates who want to start up in business, become self-employed or work freelance, as well as working closely with programme teams to provide enterprise education through the curriculum. The centre has co-working facilities and a networking, and provides financial support and training. Sporting facilities include a 25m pool, an Astro pitch, an indoor sports hall, gymnasiums and dance studios, and outdoor netball and tennis courts.

Transport
Two campuses are in the middle of town; a third is a 15-minute bus ride away.

Contact
Tel: 0151 231 5090
Email: courses@ljmu.ac.uk
Web: ljmu.ac.uk
Accommodation: accommodation@ljmu.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:20:00 GMT

University guide 2013: Middlesex University

Our at-a-glance guide to Middlesex University

Middlesex University is dedicated to unlocking potential in its students, through its research and within business. It is located in north London across three campuses, with the flagship campus in Hendon. There are 35,000 students studying at Middlesex; 8,500 of them study at campuses in Dubai and Mauritius, and at a range of worldwide partner institutions. The university is opening a third international centre near Delhi in India in autumn 2011. With such international links the university offers a real global perspective; it was one of the first UK universities to deliver British higher education overseas.

Middlesex is also a pioneer in work-based learning and enables employees to gain academic credits in the workplace, helping them to make a greater contribution to their organisations. All courses provide the opportunity for a work placement, preparing students for the world of work.

Middlesex has invested more than ÂŁ100m in the redevelopment of the Hendon campus, which boasts state-of-the-art facilities and eco-friendly, award-winning buildings.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries
From 2012-13, Middlesex will offer a wide range of fee waivers and scholarships. Visit mdx.ac.uk/scholarships.

Accommodation
Middlesex prioritises first-year students who have made the university their first choice and those from furthest away. Rent prices range from ÂŁ94 to ÂŁ120 a week.

Facilities
A new art, design and media building will be opening at the flagship Hendon campus in 2011, with ÂŁ80m invested in creating an environmentally friendly building to provide specialist creative facilities and workshops.

There are state-of-the-art teaching facilities and laboratories at the Hatchcroft science building, and ÂŁ4.5m has been spent on a student venue, the Forum. Each campus has its own learning resources centre. In summer 2011, the university launches its Red Loop design and innovation centre, making links with businesses and providing students with a range of work placement opportunities.

Transport
The campuses are in London, with all the transport benefits that that implies. Each campus is within short walking distance of a tube station.

Contact
Tel: 020-8411 5555
Email: enquiries@mdx.ac.uk
Web: mdx.ac.uk
Accommodation: accomm@mdx.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:30:00 GMT

University guide 2013: Newcastle University

Our at-a-glance guide to Newcastle University

Newcastle is a perennially popular choice with applicants, and small wonder. It's got an impressive academic track record and is located in a city that has been named the UK's best university city (MSN travel website 2008-2011), one that inspires immense affection in locals and visitors alike. Newcastle is famous for its nightlife, and, with a relatively low cost of living and a compact city centre, going for a trawl around its varied pubs and clubs couldn't be easier. But it's also a regional centre for the arts, theatre and live music. It's close to great countryside and the dramatic coastline. The university has a modern outlook - it has Fair Trade status, is a smoke-free campus, and was the only university to formally back the Jubilee Debt Campaign for the cancellation of debt in developing countries, and it has a strong commitment to the Make Poverty History campaign.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries/Scholarships
See the website for scholarships and information on fee discounts.

Accommodation
Guaranteed for eligible first-years. Prices from ÂŁ71.89 to ÂŁ125.75 a week for self-catered, and ÂŁ102.34 to ÂŁ120.05 for catered (two meals a day). Most accommodation sites are within 10 minutes' walk of the campus and the city centre.

Facilities
The University Library Service has more than 1 million books, 100,000 electronic resources, over 500,000 e-books and many specialist collections. It is the only one in the UK to have been awarded the government's Charter Mark for excellent customer service five times in a row and the new Customer Services Excellence standard. There is excellent computer provision across campus, including 24-hour computer clusters, free wireless connectivity and all student bedrooms are wired for internet and university network access.

With first-class sports facilities, including a state-of-the-art fitness centre, a range of high-quality pitches and a water sports centre, Newcastle has finished in the top 15 out of 146 in the British Universities and Colleges Sports table for the past six years.

Recent developments include an ÂŁ8m refurbishment of the grade II listed student union. Work is ongoing on a multimillion-pound teaching and accommodation complex for international students, due for completion by summer 2012. Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) opened in November 2011, making Newcastle the UK's first university to develop an overseas campus offering full UK medical degrees in-country. Newcastle also has a campus in Singapore offering degrees in naval architecture.

Transport
The campus is in the middle of the city and close to the Metro. There are easy links to London and Edinburgh, as well as a ferry port and an international airport.

Contact
Tel: 0191 208 3333
Email: Inquire online at ncl.ac.uk/enquiries
Web: ncl.ac.uk
Accommodation: www.ncl.ac.uk/enquiries

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:30:00 GMT

University guide 2013: University of Liverpool

Our at-a-glance guide to the University of Liverpool

Liverpool is arguably the redbrick university - the phrase was coined by a Liverpool academic familiar with the local architecture, like the (red, brick) Victoria building, the administrative heart of the university. And it has everything you'd expect from a classic redbrick: excellent ratings in teaching and research, a large and diverse student body, a strong sense of self and a location in a top city. Now would be a great time to apply to Liverpool - in 2008 it became the European Capital of Culture, and the investment is paying off.

In 2006, the university opened the first independent Anglo-Asian university in China in partnership with Xi'an Jiaotong University in Suzhou. Students can opt to take work placements in Suzhou. And the university is planning collaborations with universities in Chile, Mexico and Spain. ÂŁ200m of investment is also taking place on the university's campus near the centre of Liverpool. Facilities for fun are great (the student union building is the largest in the country), the cost of living is low, and there is a real commitment to opening access and to the local community.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries
The university intends to commit 30% of its additional fee income in 2012-13 to supporting students from lower-income backgrounds and will offer enhanced outreach activities alongside new measures to support retention.

Approximately 30% of students joining the university in 2012 will qualify for a minimum bursary of ÂŁ2,000 a year for the duration of their course. In addition, some students will qualify for up to ÂŁ9,000 of support in bursaries and fee waivers during their course.

Accommodation
The university is investing ÂŁ45m in its new Eco Residences project, which will involve the development of 700 en-suite study bedrooms on its city centre campus. The scheme will also include shops and a new 250-seat restaurant. The residences are planned to open in September 2012.

Facilities
Two main libraries, one of which enjoyed a ÂŁ17m redevelopment in summer 2008. Extensive sports grounds and the student union offers a choice of three bars.

A ÂŁ25m development of state-of-the-art teaching laboratories for the physical sciences to include 15 state-of-the-art teaching laboratories is due for completion in 2012. Overall, the university is investing ÂŁ600m on teaching, research and residential estate over a 10-year period.

Transport
The campus is situated about 10 minutes' walk from the city centre. Good for trains and coaches, and there are motorways almost on the doorstep.

Contact
Tel: 0151 794 2000
Email: ugrecruitment@liv.ac.uk
Web: liv.ac.uk
Accommodation: accommodation@liv.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:20:00 GMT

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