if he wants to keep having a bad relationship with the education sector he's going the right way about it
At last, Key is leading from the front. Attack is the best form of defence. Particularly with recalcitrant unions. Four years late.
the government's picking another fight with the education sector when it comes to having league tables outlining schools' performance on national standards
Although teacher unions are always fair game for winding up, league tables are long overdue and a mere sideshow to the main course. Decile ratings go part of the way, but do not expose the below par teachers that infest the low rated schools.
Remind me when the first asset for partial sale goes on the auctioneers block?
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How do you know there are "below par" teachers in "low-rated" schools? What's a low-rated school? And why do you say decile ratings go "part of the way"? Part of the way towards what?
Anon, Remind me of the percentage failure rate of students that leave school without qualification or grasp of fundamentals like the 3R's. To have such an extreme failure rate is how I know that teachers are below par.
I look forward a transparent rating system for schools and other teaching institutions free of unionised ideology and schools having whored themselves to gain the right ticks in the boxes for an ERO report.
To me the decile rating is the only current indicator of performance that I or any member of the public has access to. ERO reports are nothing but ideological manure.
As for the decile system going part of the way, a rating against specified National Standards is the ultimate aim for full performance transparency. Only then will time serving below par teachers be fully exposed.
"Remind me of the percentage failure rate of students that leave school without qualification or grasp of fundamentals like the 3R's."
You mean to say you're opining on the education system and you don't even know that?
"To me the decile rating is the only current indicator of performance that I or any member of the public has access to. "
Decile ratings aren't an indicator of performance at all they're an indicator of how wealthy the neighbourhood is. Did you knot know that?
Why do you think that "low-rated" schools as you call them are that way because of the teachers? What do you mean by below par teachers?
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