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Re: Isn't C supposed to be average?

@ledswinger

Firstly, I agree that grading exams graded by the results of everyone else taking the test is unfair and unrepresentative of ability.

I will add though that creating meaningful exam questions requires a level of understanding higher than the level being tested, no matter how you grade the results. In otherwords for meaningful tests you need people who have a much higher level of understanding in that subject than the people taking the tests. Here is where it all falls down in the UK, anyone with the level required to write tests is classed as being too expensive to employ in education.

If you want high level employees for business then you are going to have to spend money training them up so they can teach and create meaningful exams.

If you want them cheap then you are going to have to keep paying into education for decades.

Importing high level people changes nothing because the best are not going to be employed in education they are going to be grabbed by businesses desperate to compete with the rest of the world. However since these same businesses are unwilling to pay to train even their own staff the imports are not going to be teaching anyone and so business has to keep importing ability that degrades over time. Degrading because ground breaking in the field is being done elsewhere.

The situation we find ourselves in now down to the decades of short sighted and narrow minded business practices destroying what used to be the best education in the free world, perhaps it is time to seperate education from the abuses of business and instead return to viewing education as being the country's investment in the future that it should be.

To business, if you want high level people then you need to pay for their education, if you want the price to go down over time then you are going to have to pay for research in education as well.