hmmmmm
Got this from Beardy Weirdy Howard.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1418851737
At first I thought it was funny but now its giving me nightmares....
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1418851737
At first I thought it was funny but now its giving me nightmares....
posted by Old Man Rich at 11:59 AM
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this is even scarier!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1483636799
now i have done it to a freind, or maybe now an enemy...
Would have been even better with the macho facial hair.
sub-prime students
If Prime Minister Gordon Brown was to decide that 50% of all students had to become professional footballers by 2009, and paid them £30 a week while they trained, it wouldn’t improve the game.
You’d just end up with a lot of unemployed, crap, footballers.
Ditto EMA.
It’s churning out thousands of useless students who can’t kick an academic football to save their lives. In fact it’s a worse metaphor than that. EMA is to study what the sub-prime sector is to mortgages.
The current ‘credit crunch’ that we’re experiencing is the result of financial institutions selling credit, loans and mortgages to hundreds of thousands of people who couldn’t afford to repay them, and doing so for a goodly number of years. The main reason for selling all this credit to people who were bad credit risks, or in the jargon ‘sub-prime’ was, I heard in an interview the other day, that ‘everyone else was doing it’.
Ordinary folk might describe that as stupidity. But the result of that stupidity is that we’ve had to loan Northern Rock thirty-odd billion pounds just to keep them afloat. That’s about £500 each from everyone in the country. And counting.
And as stupid as it is to sell credit to people who can’t repay you, it’s just as stupid to pay people to study, who don’t want to study. I reckon that in a few years time there’s going to be an academic credit-crunch, of seismic proportions.
Every 6th form and FE College now numbers a hefty percentage of sub-prime students, those whose goal is not to get a better education or to gain qualifications to enable them to pursue a career, but who attend because they’ve got nothing better to do than collect their £30/week EMA for turning up. You can recognise them fairly quickly; they arrive late, often without a file, pen, pencil or homework. They sit and ignore you whilst texting their pals. They don’t take notes (you can’t make them) and the hand-outs you give them remain on their desks at the end of the lesson.
The problem is, you get EMA for just turning up, not for learning. So they attend lessons, but they don’t learn; they call themselves students but don't subscribe to the idea of education. They’re there now, in your classroom, pretending to be students. And they’re staying there until something better turns up.
6th form has become a holding-pen for teenagers.
A crèche.
And because we allow them to basically do what they want for two years, and pay them to do it, we’re actually giving them a handicap. When they do step out into the world and try to function properly as employees who have to actually work for a living, they’ll struggle. They’ve learned two lessons straight from the Underclass Curriculum: effort is not necessary, and someone else will always pick up the tab.
And those who do manage to scrape two E’s and get into University, will leave shortly thereafter, massively in debt, to discover very few prospects except in the McJob sector.
There’s a huge question here, and it’s this: what are we going to do with the Sub-Prime Generation?
The answer does not begin with the acronym EMA.
jim
Jim,
I'm thinking
National service....
War against terror....
acceptable losses...
of course, all those part time welding teachers who become surplus to requirements go straight to the front line!
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