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Can a GapYear course in
Snort
funny
Talking point
Italy help you get a job?
Children aged
five will be
given lessons
on using
Ofsted is to blame for
Tim Oliver, Chairman of
piggy banks,
announced
our bad schools
the Hampden Group
schools
secretary Ed
Harriet Sergeant, The Sunday Times of Companies, says yes.
Balls. Seven
Ofsted’s 2009 report on the state of the
to 11-year- education system blames teachers for the
‘
Of course, a good degree is
olds will be fact that a third of England’s pupils leave
taught how
primary school without a “grounding in
to manage a
impressive to an employer,
the basics”. But much of the blame lies
bank account,
with Ofsted itself, says Harriet Sergeant.
under
changes to
Rather than focusing on the central
but at Hampden and many other companies
the National
question – does this school teach kids to
Curriculum.
read and write? – the government agency
I know, we look for something more. Much of
is obsessed with second-order issues
such as social welfare. One disillusioned one’s working life is about being civilized;
inspector says she spends “more time
looking in children’s lunch boxes than
getting on with people, having a sense of history
testing their literacy”. Inspectors ought
to be rooting out educational fads that
and proportion as well as an appreciation of
end up holding children back, such as
teachers not correcting mistakes for
fear of “discouraging” learning. Instead,
what is good. My daughter did an Art History
they must assess whether children are
taking “ownership” of their education,
Abroad course in Italy. She had a wonderful
and whether the school promotes
“community cohesion”. Even worse is the time; loved learning why art and history are so
Government’s fixation with “progress”
rather than actual results. Terrible schools
important, and made new friends for life.
’
which improve a bit can still get
One
a Good or even Outstanding
disillusioned
report; others get let off
the hook because of their
Art History Abroad takes Gap Year students
inspector says she
“deprived” intake. If we want
spends “more time
to fix schools we must first
throughout Italy four dierent times each year:
fix the inspectorate.
looking in children’s Spring, Early Summer, Late Summer, and
lunch boxes than
testing their
Autumn. We also do two-week Mini
literacy” Gap Year courses in the summer.
‘Invest in your future. Investigate the past.’
says Tim Oliver!
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