Schools successfully teach teenagers how to calculate the area of an isosceles triangle, yet leave them completely defenceless against a gas bill, a raw chicken breast, or a leaky U-bend. Teaching practical life skills equips teenagers with the ultimate survival guide for adulthood, transforming them from exam-passing robots into functioning humans who can actually decodeContinue reading “Calculus Over Cookery: Why Modern Schools Are Failing The Real World”
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As GCSE Marks Fall by 4.3 Per Cent, Passes Return To Pre-Covid Levels
The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has dropped from last year but is higher than before the pandemic, while students in England were left worse off than those in Wales and Northern Ireland where grade inflation was retained. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers received their GCSE results today in a year when stepsContinue reading “As GCSE Marks Fall by 4.3 Per Cent, Passes Return To Pre-Covid Levels”
