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English Piece Of Writing On Education

    Many people laugh through their nostrils and snigger when the English education system comes into conversation. It has been viewed by many as 'poor'. However, I believe it has evolved quite well and has many positive points that need to be preached to the general public. I had the opportunity to travel up and down the country to various settlements like Grimsby and hurl statistics of the increasing percentage of exam passes. Always willing to try something new I accepted the challenge. However, I was unaware that I would be assaulted by questions or statements that would cause a great deal of mental discomfort. An example of these brain-teasers can be seen below:

'It is the exams that are getting easier, the teaching standards are not improving'

    The opinion I took was that teaching was improving. You may call me ignorant if you wish but I had never considered the Dark Side's beliefs, mainly because I have tried exam papers from a variety of years and I think the later papers are the hardest.
    The British Isles has many different types of schools:- there are public schools, where the student's education is paid for separately and not funded by the Government. The other most common school is comprehensive, where the funding for equipment etc. comes out of the school's budget from the Government. There are even a few Grammar schools skulking away in the corners of the country.
    There are various examination boards that run different courses and subjects and they decide what goes on the syllabus. It is the schools that chose which examination board they want the subjects from. After a countless amount of end of term exams and other tests there are two external exams that are compulsory to be taken :- S.A.T.S (13-14 years), G.C.S.E (15-16 years). Further education can be taken in the form of GNVQ and A-Levels and other qualifications that can be obtained from colleges and universities. If you get bad grades (A being the highest, F the lowest) then you get bad grades or fail and could be prevented from moving forward, onto A-Levels after G.C.S.Es for example. Many feel this is a bit harsh and they should be kept down until they achieve grades that can get them through, like the American system.
    The better the exam the higher you are looked upon when going for a job interview. There is speculation whether exams measure intelligence or rather revision skills. If this is the case then it is not necessarily a bad thing, as lack of revision is usually down to laziness, and no employer would want a lazy worker. Aside from the actual learning and system, the amount of money the government puts into the schools and education is under large attack from