Gordon Brown

[marshlander]

... I want to see the education system change.

Better not start on this one, the education system hasn't stopped changing since the 1980s. What is most seriously wrong with education is that successive government ministers, their advisers and civil servants have each thought of another brilliant idea each time someone has changed their socks :mad: . For example, the National Curriculum has been such a fiasco because it has been riddled with everyone's good ideas, power games and infighting. In fact if the "National Curriculum" was such a good idea why do we need four of them; one each for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Why would each of these have gone through several revisions in a very short space of time? A period of proper research and evaluation would have made a better impression on teachers, would have saved a lot of people's physical and emotional health and might have encouraged a bit more thinking. You are part of a generation that has been experimented on throughout your whole time of school. Uncertainty, unease and perpetual confusion over what is and what isn't a priority in education have caused many of the the problems to which you allude. The last thing anyone in education needs is yet another clever initiative. How about a policy of not changing anything for a while, trusting teachers to act like the professionals they are supposed to be and just letting things bed down?