Interesting article on Scottish Education on the BBC website.
This particularly caught my eye:
The report's authors say our secondaries are too academic and should go much further to ensure pupils have the chance to begin learning a trade or skill.
They also say children should not necessarily be sent to college to do this vocational education - teaching them on site would be more socially inclusive.
My own experience is that 'vocational' pupils/students perform considerably better in the college environment than they do in school. Perhaps it is because they are in a less draconian environment, and are working on subjects that might actually interest them, but they do seem to react better to college work and/or lecturers.
Either way, this shake up will affect FE and HE institutions in a big way. Again.
