Caporegime
Or pull it out of both welfare and defence and put it into our increasingly embarrassing education system.
What taxes do we have that other countries don't?
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Or pull it out of both welfare and defence and put it into our increasingly embarrassing education system.
+1, though I'd plug for healthcare, too.
Caporegime
That was another one high on my list.
Soldato
IF you got a few million come to my country. You only pay something like £20,000 tax on all your worldwide wealth, as long that you live here. We also don't have any VAT, road tax, tv licence, council tax and death tax. Plus no tax on savings.
plus you have Barbary Macaques. As far as i can see its win/win
Soldato
Agreed. I've worked in the Education Sector and today's standard is a joke. I'd hate to see children try to sit an O-Level for example.
Stop wasting money on welfare and war and put it into health and education. After all it is the next generation (make it sew) that will be helping earn and spend us out of debt. Can't do that if they don't have jobs, preferably good jobs.
Soldato
Yes but without both money (to pay good teachers, support staff, buildings and so on) and proper policies (to sack bad teachers, to not be focused on learning by rote and so on) then the system will continue to be the farce that it is now.
You can't sack a teacher for getting good exam results, that is the driving force in modern education laid out by government. You can throw all the money you like at it, but until their is a shift away from results driven learning, nothign will change. You are taught to pass the exam, rather than thought the subject.
And this is why the current education system is a joke. It was when i was at school 10 years ago and i doubt that its changed a bit.
for example my English teacher coached us specifically on the poems we would get on our English exam. The rest of the book was ignored as it wasn't needed.
So many kids come out having passed exams but while still not knowing anything. Even basic stuff. My sister in law got 3 As and 7 Bs at GCSE, this was 3 years ago. 1 year ago during a game of trivial pursuit the question came up "What was Hitler's first name". Apparently it's George.
I've lost count of the times my dad asked me or my brother stuff while we were at school and we had no idea what he was on about. He thought it was basic stuff you learnt at school but it never came up at all. Fortunately my dad was able to explain stuff and my brother and I are inquisitive enough to try and find things out on our own. Most aren't however.
But that's because "The Gambia" is a concatenation of "The Republic of The Gambia".
Shhhhh!
True, I'm 24 and wouldn't begin to know how to use a log table... We have things called calculators now...
Education has changed, most 40 year olds couldn't do the work most 15 year olds are doing now because they weren't taught it, and vice versa. I really don't stand by the idea that our educations system is that bad. We have one of the highest literacy rates in the world (obviously) and are have some of the top universities in the world, with a massive number of international students coming to learn here because we have such a great educational system.
Obviously we could stick more into it and get bette results but IMO there comes a point where more money doesn't really get worthwhile results. Personally on the University side of things (and 6th form actually) we should scrap Labours plans for them, reduce the number of places in both and increase spending per student (no increase in overall spending). More money for research, less people per class (but then I had between 6 and 10 in a level classes and most of my uni classes/lectures had a max of about 30...) and better results for those who excel academically.
For those who don't make it to uni (or want to go) then more apprenticeships like "the old days", where companies trained their new staff in house.
EDIT: I agree about the learning for exams rather than learning the subject, but then I bet there were just as many issues in the 60s as now (in fact hearing some of my parents tales I'm inclined to believe discipline and learning have got a damn site better!).
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