Boris Johnson try to up skill the UK
Boris Johnson try to up skill the UK
Boris Johnson has vowed "radical" changes to the adult education system in England to help boost the post-Covid economy. By up skilling those who have otherwise been left behind.
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This policy that Boris will be a loose encouragement to study technical subjects to a level slightly higher than A levels.
Here at the Exam House we ask: It is not about freedom to learn for a subject. Rather it is the in job training and the qualification at the end of it that matters.
We concur with Boris that there is far too many un robust GCSEs and A Levels. Far too many pointless GCSE And A level exams. No wonder pupils get dis enchanted.
Why does a 16 year old need to do GCSE English while also being forced to do GCSE History. Too many exams means exam fatigue. While a watering down of the whole process. Exam candidates in their life time have a capacity for meaningful exams. It is quickly exhausted for meaningless exams.
No wonder, fewer individuals are leaving education with the technical skills needed to thrive in the 21st century work place.
Boris admission is essentially saying most university courses are ill equipped for the modern day. While tax payers continue to support universities who are pumping out graduates with the wrong sort of skills. It is completely bonkers!
Boris Johnson said the pandemic had "massively accelerated" changes to the world of work, and made training gaps "painfully apparent".
We can see this in the way in which universities are being dis intermediated with online courses as explained so well by Jordon Peterson.
Boris added that better training would "give people the skills to find and create new and better jobs". Surely the better way of this is to give companies of any size to pay for their staff to be up-skilled and examined .
Boris said a new "lifetime skills guarantee" would offer a fully funded college course to all people over 18 in England without an A-level or equivalent qualification.
Funding for these qualifications and skills will be offered for courses offering "skills valued by employers" - with full list to be announced next month.
If this doesn’t give the Universities a wake up call. The Youtube generation doubled down by the pandemic is going to drive a coach and horses through their outrageous over priced and under serving business model.
The supply of skilled workers in certain industries simply isn't meeting demand, and calls to end the "snootiness" between academic and vocational qualifications is one part of why a lot of universities will suffer their demise.
Surely this is a case of tutors and exams focussing on individuals who have a desire to up skill and retrain?
Coronavirus has, it's argued, accelerated the latter trend with, for example, more working from home and online shopping. While also studying online. Here at the Exam House we think universities especially, should be very scared.
The task of re-directing workers into industries where there's a shortage of workers has been made more urgent as this pandemic has fastened the speed at which unproductive jobs have been shed. These jobs were unproductive way before the pandemic.
Boris said the pandemic had "compressed" a "revolution" to the jobs market. With trends such as online shopping accelerating. While Boris did not mention online learning.
Boris added that although some jobs would fall away, he wanted people to take advantage of "new opportunities opening up with dizzying speed". So lets focus on the skills learnt through youtube.
The government's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) said care workers, butchers, and bricklayers should go on the UK's "shortage occupation list".