Bob Browning's blog

You just couldn’t make it up could you. Some guys funded by the dept of trade and industry (ie us) have come up with the recommendation that computer games should be studied in schools. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3956241.stm

Well I guess now the playing fields have all been sold off… sigh…

How about teaching them to write english and do simple maths.

Despite the fact that half the population can apparently get multiple A levels at grade A . And despite the fact that the exams have not been dumbed down and the pupils have just go better, I am still confronted by a series of ill-educated illiterates who couldn’t figure their way out of a paper bag whenever I have to interview graduates.

I know one person who’s interviewing approach is to first ask the graduate which part of the course they excelled in. Then he would ask a few questions about that area. You guessed it, most couldn’t answer them.

When I last interviewed marketing grads (who had all done statistics as a course) and asked them to explain the concept of standard deviation, very few could.

Our education system is a cruel joke played on the innocents who have to go through it.

I dispair.