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English schools still failing

by Paul Conneally | December 1, 2009 at 11:42 pm

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Figures that will not help Prime Minister Brown's re-election prospects show that more English primary schools are failing to get children to the expected levels in the core subjects of Maths, English and Science.

New Labour came to power with Tony Blair's rallying cry of 'Education! Education! Education!' but as the next UK election looms figures like these will make any similar claims from Labour look hollow as SAT levels fall.

Many teachers claim the SAT's are in themselves part of the problem and need scrapping at Key Stage 2 (tests for 11 year olds) as they have been at Key Stage 3 (14 year olds).

Meanwhile the UK government continue to claim that overall education is the best it's ever been with more young people than ever going on to higher education.

Of 15,000 schools, 268 managed to get all 10 to 11-yearolds to the expected level in English, maths and science - down from 329 last year.

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Yommie

at 02:10 on December 2nd, 2009

English schools are failing not only at the primary level but at secondary level as well. It is far from the fault of teachers (who have been stripped of their dignity and right of student discipline), but the fault lay at the foot of both the government (who increasingly put more power on the little shoulders of students) and parents (many of whom do not know their duties and instead focus on bullying head-teachers rather than encourage their wards to study hard).

Babel-Fish

at 04:40 on December 2nd, 2009

I totally agree

PIM of SPAIN

at 04:47 on December 2nd, 2009

If you want a good math and science education for yr kids send them to a Chinese or Japanese college, there are the scientist for the future trained and educated.

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at 09:42 on February 2nd, 2010

Yes I agree with this. English schools are predominantly failing to provide good education systems when it comes to science and maths. If education in all subjects has to be met with certain criterias, the teachers, faculties, staffs of the schools should be well trained and prepared to give excellent knowledge transfer and exposure to children in all the needed subjects to be learned.