Poor Angela Burns (she's the Shadow Minister for Education in the Assembly, for anyone who might not believe it after reading this article) must have thought she was being awfully clever when she issued this press statement condemning the Welsh Government for launching a consultation on whether to reform education qualifications.
But now, only three weeks later, up pops Michael Gove with proposals to implement just about everything she accuses the Welsh Government of wanting to do. Surely what she says must apply every bit as much to England as to Wales, so she must be hoping nobody shows this to her bosses in Westminster:
WalesEngland must retain internationally-recognised qualifications
Young people in
WalesEngland must have the option to pursue internationally-recognised qualifications, which they can take wherever in the world their future careers take them.Perhaps in addition to its biased questions, the
Welsh LabourEnglish Tory Government should also consult on whether its own policies are fit for purpose, rather than seeking to direct blame for their persistent failures on the qualifications themselves.When
WalesEngland is underperforming compared to other countries in the world, why does the Minister assume that it’s the qualifications at fault?This document further highlights the
LabourTory Government’s obsession with their pursuit of difference for its own sake instead of acting in the best interests ofWalesEngland.Ministers should be working to raise academic performance within the current examination framework rather than proposing a disruptive, costly and unnecessary reorganisation of qualifications.
Why do I need to savage Michael Gove's hare-brained ideas about educational qualifications when one of his fellow Tories has already done such a good job of it?
