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What is wrong with all examination?

Arran Cameron
During my secondary school years every GCSE subject had a coursework component. In 2007 coursework was dropped from maths making it all examination. In more recent years other subjects have gone all examination.


I strongly uphold the main GCSE subjects (English, maths, science, probably geography, history and RS as well) as all examination with no coursework, as I believe it to be the fairest method overall, although coursework components should continue for creative subjects including art, music, and D&T.


Whenever I state my view I get accused of being another Michael Gove.


I am aware that the Lib-Dems and the Green Party want to re-instate coursework for ALL GCSE subjects. Is this intelligent thought or just a whim of a liberal chattering class without any regard for students themselves or the desires of the silent majority?
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    ".......the vast majority of the secondary school curriculum in the main subjects is irrelevant for everyday life in the real world and most employment. It's really an exercise in showing the world whether you can learn rather than learning something useful or relevant."


    At the moment I work on the control of industrial diesel engines and my work involves all the chemistry, maths and physics you could want, and which has a solid basis in all the stuff my science and maths teachers tried their best to get across to us at O level in 1979.

    More generally I've made a living from being 16 to now (and hopefully beyond) with the stuff I got taught at secondary school, so I fundamentally disagree with the thesis partially quoted above.


    Cheers

    David

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    ".......the vast majority of the secondary school curriculum in the main subjects is irrelevant for everyday life in the real world and most employment. It's really an exercise in showing the world whether you can learn rather than learning something useful or relevant."


    At the moment I work on the control of industrial diesel engines and my work involves all the chemistry, maths and physics you could want, and which has a solid basis in all the stuff my science and maths teachers tried their best to get across to us at O level in 1979.

    More generally I've made a living from being 16 to now (and hopefully beyond) with the stuff I got taught at secondary school, so I fundamentally disagree with the thesis partially quoted above.


    Cheers

    David

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