Education

C B

The Minister for Education has today asked all children to stay in education after the Junior Cert.

What do people think about this?

Venom

Dont really care one way or another,and in all fairness we do need people to work in jobs like McDonalds and BurgerKing

UNIFLU

hey we do need petrol pump attendants !.....no thats bad. These days very few people drop out after junior/inter cert so i wouldnt think it is a major dilema for the minister of education, id say its just her trying to seem like shes doing something good for the people.

Bard

I'm sure it's the ministers duty to try to ensure that we have the highest standards of education possible, and so to try to ensure that students stay in the education system for as long as possible. Sure! we need people working in McDonalds and Burger King (we seem to have plenty of them at the moment though, - most of them foreign) and Sure! we need petrol pump attendants,- but we don't need them to be 15 years old.

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C B

Manach,

maybe if he did you would know that he isn't a she

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SantaHoe

Originally posted by C B:
The Minister for Education has today asked all children to stay in education after the Junior Cert.

What do people think about this?

You'd be mad not to, but TBH I don't think anyone who hates school so much that they count the days until it's legal to leave, will give two farts about what the MoE has to say.
But then it might knock some sense into teachers who reccomend that certain kids don't bother with the leaving cert.

I'd like to see everyone finish the LC then go on to third level education in whatever they would like to do.
Take money out of sports and use it to fund more new UNI's.

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Jak

Trust me .. there is no money in sport in this country for the sports people.

Manach

Fine so long as she does not make it compulsory.

SantaHoe

Hmmm, I dunno, I heard something on the wireless last year about £'X'million going towards some GAA thing or other...
And for those of us who have no interest in sports, that's just disgusting.

But of course I was very, very... drunk.

C B

Originally posted by Dead{o}Santa:


Take money out of sports and use it to fund more new UNI's.

What about those that excell at sport. Should we also take money away from the arts and vocational training to benefit acedamic ecducation.

Shinji

I'd like to see everyone finish the LC then go on to third level education in whatever they would like to do.

Doesn't work for everyone.

For a lot of those clever kids who do go through school, finish the leaving cert and go on to university, the only thing that keeps them sane is the fact that at the Junior Cert, a lot of the element of their classes that is NOT academic and has no interest in school (and are therefore disruptive and often bullying or violent) leave school and go off to do, erm, whatever it is that they do.

Hell, even the university thing doesn't necessarily work for everyone. I have no university education; I suppose technically this makes me a dropout, since I did a pretty good leaving cert and simply decided not to take any of the courses I was offered. Can't say I feel like a dropout; I'm in a cool job that I've wanted to do since I was a kid, earning more than enough money to live comfortably... A university education would simply have been of no benefit to me.

Education can't be tailor-made to the requirements of each individual (sadly), but it can't be made in one-size-fits-all form either.

Ja,
Rob