Premier Bligh should be congratulated for her plan to introduce basic tests for teachers entering the work force. It is sad that it is necessary, but we may as well face the reality that there is a small but significant percentage of graduates of education courses from our tertiary institutions that cannot do basic Maths and English.
There are two questions for which I cannot find a good answer. First, why is there any opposition to the Premiers plan? The teachers unions are vehemently opposed. Secondly, how have we got to the point that some students with 3 years of tertiary study in education can emerge without mastery knowledge of basic arithmetic and fractions. How can they possibly have been allowed to graduate?
Friday, July 3, 2009
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