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09 March 2010 vocational education A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

I'm a retired university lecturer. I think we need universities for vocational learners. We should turn some of our ex-polys or colleges of further education into degree-giving institutions for builders, painters and decorators, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, stonemasons, roofers etc. Students would be undergraduates with all that that implies...they would learn trades along with business studies and have opportunities for other cultural activities. Current colleges do not offer young people the life-style for which we should aim for all our children. judith Alnwick
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04 March 2010 ex-Army officers trained as teachers A message for: Michael GoveMichael Gove

Not everyone shares my view but speaking as an ex-Further Education lecturer, I think its an excellent idea!
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04 March 2010 Money A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

EMA bonuses are the most ridiculous idea ever, what about all the people that have turned up for every lesson and continually worked hard throughout the year, how come they aren't entitled to such bonuses?? Just because someone comes from a reasonably well off family doesn't mean they should not be rewarded equally for their hard work, what kind of an incentive is that for the rest of us to work hard?? Another pressing matter is the way that grants are decided form financial information from the previous year, especially with so many people being made redundent, the informational is irrelevent! The money that you earnt last year was spent last year on living!! The trouble is that it is hard to appreciate these matters unles sthey are happening to you! Hollie Leics
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03 March 2010 Help A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

When pupils ask for help, for an easy way not to teach the children they tell them off instead of explaining the work. It should be changed that the children who don't understand, get extra help. Chanel Croydon
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03 March 2010 Explanation A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

Explain things better in school, go into detail because some people are shy. Lance Croydon
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03 March 2010 Provision A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

Use more electronic whiteboards. Use more computers to motivate students. Use extensive streaming for eg, maths, languages, arts. R London
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01 March 2010 Compulsory education A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

If it were compulsory to eat, in that someone *made * you sit down and eat food you did not fancy, would you not feel turned off food? of course you would! Why do we talk about education as compulsory then? I realise that this is how the law has termed education, but really, why are we sticking with Victorian ideologies? This is the 21st Century. Surely nothing should be compulsory in a free society? Learning should be as enjoyable as cooking. And I don't mean catering, I mean cooking creatively. Open up learning centres full of computers, books, tutors, etc and let people really educate themselves intrinsically! If I were in such a position as yours, I would be doing something exciting and modern and unorthodox. Raquel Southend
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28 February 2010 valuing the individual A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

I am a special needs teacher in Northern Ireland. Several years ago I was reading about the efforts made in the Dutch secondary education system to provide a mix of academic and practical education for all pupils - with both being equally valued. Two quotes stayed with me - ' It is no more intrinsically difficult to learn Latin, than it is to learn how to plumb a bathroom.' ' We need a lawyer once or twice in our lives. We need a baker every day.' I really like the Big Picture model of educating one student at a time. http://www.bigpicture.org/big-picture-history/ Marian Derry
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27 February 2010 Post 16 Cert Ed/QTS A message for: Ed BallsEd Balls

Surely aptitude, subject knowledge, ongoing CPD,. professionalism and the ability to engage pupils equate to QTS rather than the ridiculous situation whereby those of us who were able to teach in schools when we gained the post16 Cert Ed in the 80's are no longer qualified to do so? I am a qualified teacher, doing the job every day with permanently excluded pupils, meeting all my professional development targets and producing ever improving examination results. Why can I no longer call myself a qualified teacher in the eyes of the GTC? JEAN Newcastle upon Tyne
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27 February 2010 teachers! A message for: The next Education SecretaryThe next Education Secretary

Am i alone in thinking that teachers these days teach only because that is all they know how to do? is it too easy for people to become teachers? should teachers go through a thorough training to see if they have what it takes to work and deal with children on all levels and not just education? Lets face it we put a lot of trust in teachers to help nuture, teach and guide our children, but i have found that the majority of teachers do not actually have the skills to listen to a child when there is something wrong or they are struggling, children are supposed to be there to listen learn do well and thats it where teachers are concerned!! They demand respect but dont know how to use it themselves, so what are they really teaching our children? Teachers and their piers moan and complain about childrens behaviour, but dont stop to think that their actions play a part in how children behave! Children dont just emulate parents they emulate teachers too and all forms of adults. So in my view they should act with respect be taught how to councel children and most of all use the best skill they have their EARS perhaps there wouldnt be so much bad behaviour in schools1 Amanda Pymouth
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