Re: Here's someone on our side :o)

Ian <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:pan.2006.09.09.19.34.34.370922
@Zaphod.com:

On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:06:57 +0100, D.M.
Procida wrote:

Ian <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Businesses have the interests of employees,
customers and shareholders at
heart. The teaching profession also has its
own interests at heart too.


Need to leap in here a little Ian: Is it not
the law that a company must maximise
shareholder return? If that's the case
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder
though that is US law) businesses (with
shareholders) are bound to put those interests
first, even if they don't want to - e.g. pay
as little tax as possible while pursuading the
governement to take as much of the training
burden as possible. I guess the problem is
that business seems to want to the biggest
profit it can right now by any legal means
possible and it's responsibility to the
society that supports it seems to go out of
the window.

Elsewhere you comment that busness seems to
have little real influence on education on the
ground. That /seems/ strange - if that's the
case what is driving the obsession with a
narrow band of skills - coincedentally those
bussiness constantly says are deficient?
Certainly teachers don't feel there needs to
be this kind of change (well, OK, this teacher
anyway).

--
Grumbs
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Fortune's just around the corner,
Waiting in the shadows with a baseball bat.
.

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