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


"D.M. Procida" <real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1hlobp2.11ua10i114u30lN%real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Martin <ngng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm finding this an extraordinary thread. I haven't grasped from your posts
whether your business experience included hiring staff. If it did, and you
were totally happy with your recruits, I suggest you have had a rare
experience.

The recruitment I did was probably fairly unrepresentative of what
normally goes on in business, and over the years there wasn't that much
of it anyway.

It seems like a stunning presumption to demand a right that the
education system should be in any way oriented towards *my* convenience
as an employer.

I wasn't aware that anyone is demanding such a right. Making sure our ed'n system helps UK Ltd to remain competitive seems to me pretty fundamental, and employers' views on this need to be heeded. IME, employers mostly have a better idea of what is needed than most politicians or most parents.

Business's demands change almost from year to year.

Nonsense. The need for literacy, numercy, social / interpersonal skills etc hasn't altered so far as I am aware. You need to distinguish between school education (cultlivating the raw material for adult life in society, employment etc) and specific job training and/or HE.

Is education going
to jump to, or even have to listen to, a tune which endlessly shifts,
according to the latest market conditions or the latest bright ideas in
industry?

That's totally to misunderstand what education needs to embrace and what employers want to see in school leavers.

I repeat my question - who precisely should have a say in what is taught and how?

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Martin

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