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EDUCATION + SCHOOLS + TEACHERS + UNIVERSITIES + CURRICULUM + READING + WRITING + ARITHMETIC
Education * schools * teachers * universities * curriculum * reading * writing * arithmetic * university education * school leavers * careers * jobs * employment opportunities * teachers wages
EDUCATION
It is essential that every child gets a decent education and leaves school able to read and write well. Teachers need to be free to concentrate on teaching and free from unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape.
Parents need to take responsibility to ensure that their children have a basic grasp of reading and writing before they start school and ensure they read books throughout their childhood.
TEACHERS
Teachers need to be paid a decent wage to encourage high calibre candidates to join the profession. Teaching is one of the most important professions responsible for moulding the future.
More money should be invested in teachers and teaching and administration and administrative staff that place a huge burden on teaching budgets should be cut to a minimum. We don't need civil servants who create bureaucracy to prove they are needed.
SCHOOLS
School classes should hold less than 30 pupils. Emphasis should be placed on reading, writing and arithmetic with sport and physical exercise every day to combat child obesity.
There should be no faith schools as this is divisive and separates communities instead of helping to integrate children from different backgrounds. Religion would not be part of any school curriculum. If parents want their children to be brought up within a faith, religious studies would have to take place outside of the school system.
Business and entrepreneurial courses would form the last two years of every child's schooling to encourage thinking and self determination rather than believing that a career was something that should be provided by other established businesses. We need children to leave school with ambition and desire to achieve off their own backs.
In fact, we believe that children above the age of fifteen should be encouraged to start business enterprises in the last two years of school to give them a real understanding of life after school.
UNIVERSITIES
The whole university structure needs to be reworked. There are too many places given to students who end up with degrees that are of little use in the business world. Currently, employers place little importance on many degrees because there are too many students leaving university with them.
We need to encourage children into skilled trades that are going to prove useful rather than obtaining a degree that cannot be used for anything worthwhile when they leave university.
Business studies, entrepreneurial skills and management courses would encourage students to strike out in the world and create wealth and career opportunities for others.
We need doctors, dentists, scientists, teachers, builders, skilled tradesmen and business people not more civil servants and local government officers. Therefore, universities need to be restructured with emphasis on teaching subjects that are going to prove useful not create more unemployment with a surplus of university leavers qualified to do nothing useful or constructive.
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