The NHS

[Batch]

Cheers, just had the first sachet of bowel death

Tehehe. Could be worse.

Enema : Not a friend.

[ronnie21]

Cheers, just had the first sachet of bowel death

Should have just had a couple of pints of 3B's - that would have sorted you out!

[Shaw Rosso]

Tehehe. Could be worse.

Enema : Not a friend.

Half way through Sachet number 2, not a bloody thing yet, i better not be starving for fuck all 

[oxford_fan]

Totally agree with you Arriba, grandaughter came home from Swindon Academy yesterday to tell her parents that the uniform is going to cpmpletely change and they would have to wear a blazer, blouse, skirt and tie - the school colours are changing as well so any uniform presently worn is going to be obsolete in September.  To soften the blow the Academy is going to provide existing pupils with free blazers and ties this time.  What a total waste of money - especially as the school was highlighted in the Adver earlier this week as morale is at an all time low amongst staff due to massive cuts and redundancies.  Priorities wrong I would say!!

Academies are ruled by businesses. Businesses want their schools to have a 'smart' appearance to improve their branding.

Government policy is as follows:

1. Cut funding to education.
2. Schools become desperate for money.
3. Schools link with businesses to form Academies.
4. Corporate involvement means that management decisions are no longer made in the interests of pupils and learning. Instead, they are motivated by branding and business profit.

Schools need to resist corporate involvement for as long as possible, until this government is out.

Also add into that, that inspection measures are being changed. The tories want more schools to fail so they can justify business involvement. Once they (the businesses) are in, they are hard/impossible to get rid of.

Gove is a cunt.

[ScillyRed]

I had mine in Penzance - think I could have gone to Lands End and farted and flown the 26 miles home 

[Shaw Rosso]

I had mine in Penzance - think I could have gone to Lands End and farted and flown the 26 miles home 

Believe me, i would give my right arm for a fart right now 

[donkey]

Academies are ruled by businesses. Businesses want their schools to have a 'smart' appearance to improve their branding.

Government policy is as follows:

1. Cut funding to education.
2. Schools become desperate for money.
3. Schools link with businesses to form Academies.
4. Corporate involvement means that management decisions are no longer made in the interests of pupils and learning. Instead, they are motivated by branding and business profit.

Schools need to resist corporate involvement for as long as possible, until this government is out.

Also add into that, that inspection measures are being changed. The tories want more schools to fail so they can justify business involvement. Once they (the businesses) are in, they are hard/impossible to get rid of.

Gove is a cunt.

Would you like to be the next Minister for Education?

[oxford_fan]

Would love to. I've worked in schools for four years so have four years experience on Michael Gove. I think he and Piers Morgan are possibly the only two human beings that repulse me.

[nevillew]

Also add into that, that inspection measures are being changed. The tories want more schools to fail so they can justify business involvement. Once they (the businesses) are in, they are hard/impossible to get rid of.

Pretty much like crap teachers then.

[oxford_fan]

Hahah, identical in that respect, yes.

I'm quitting my post to go traveling, so we had 6 candidates come in to interview for my job on Friday. 5 of them were good or very good, but the bloke who came was absolutely hopeless. Been teaching for about 10 years too. One kid spent the majority of the 15 minute lesson drawing a detailed picture of Hulk Hogan on his whiteboard, and by the end of the lesson most of the others were rolling around on the floor shouting, before he attempted to restore some sense of order. When asked in the interview whether he would take the job he said, "Mmmmm.... well, I've got another interview this afternoon so I'd have to see how that one went first." Bet his current school can't wait to get rid of him.

[jonny72]

Schools need to resist corporate involvement for as long as possible, until this government is out.

So you think there will be less academies and business funding of them under the party (Labour) that came up with the idea and implemented it in the first place?

I'm not sure the problem is anything to do with funding anyway, I'd argue our education system is fucked from top to bottom and we pretty much need to start from scratch to sort the mess out. What it really needs is cross party agreement to do it but there is no chance of that happening.

[oxford_fan]

So you think there will be less academies and business funding of them under the party (Labour) that came up with the idea and implemented it in the first place?

I'm certain of it.

Labour started their academy programme in 2002 and by the time the coalition came to power in 2010 they'd opened 203 academies. Since then, the Tories have raped the shit out of the idea and we now have 1,807 academy schools.

I don't agree with your last bit. We have one of the best education systems in the world. What makes it "fucked from top to bottom?" It'll be fucked from top to bottom if all of our schools are sponsored, and therefore partially controlled, by Carpet Right.

[jonny72]

If anything it would be worse under Labour as the need to increase public spending (especially on education and health) is so ingrained that they will take money from anywhere they can get it. Hence the PPI schemes, hence the academy scheme and so on. They would need to find money from somewhere to increase (or just maintain) spending which will be from the private sector.

You say our education system would be damaged with more business control, I'd say it is being damaged with the level of control that the main universities have. We've seen this recently with a co-ordinated push from various parties to give universities more control over the curriculum and teaching methods to prepare students better for university. The problem with this is that it doesn't help those at all that don't go to university and is also a negative for some of those that do - the heavy focus on academic studies isn't necessarily a good thing.

There obviously needs to be a balancing act between academic and vocational study but at present it is weighed far too heavily towards academic. Which I think is largely responsible for the high level of youth unemployment - too many kids leaving school and college without the real skills they and businesses need.

My main area of interest is IT education especially in schools and colleges. I spent some time recently researching this and came to the conclusion it is presently a complete and utter crock of shit. This is something which the government acknowledge but haven't done anything about as they are too busy commissioning reports and then reading them rather than doing anything about it. There are some very quick and easy fixes but that would be far too easy.

[Uncletrunx]

One kid spent the majority of the 15 minute lesson drawing a detailed picture of Hulk Hogan on his whiteboard

Education hasn't changed since I was at school, I see!

[Freddies Ferret]

Thing the main problem with the NHS is that it is measured on quantity and not quality, something which Labour brought in to make it look like the NHS was working better than it was. As a result they aim to meet targets and use any tactics they can to break the rules, they might meet those targets but the patients suffer in the process.

But nothing changes the fact we're broke and there simply isn't the money to pay for everything.

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