7/1/2008 8:45:00 AM
Daily Telegraph 1 July
Education policy in England is leading to the "cultural and intellectual impoverishment" of a generation of school children, a leading headmistress has warned. The introduction of new-style courses - teaching children how to use English and mathematics in the work place - has been at the expense of academic rigour, said Bernice McCabe, head of the independent North London Collegiate School. She said children's enjoyment of subjects at school had taken a back seat in recent years as ministers use education as a vehicle to boost their basic skills. Mrs McCabe, whose school gained the best A-level results in the country in last year's Daily Telegraph league table, condemned the "woolliness" of the present system in which subjects were "relegated to the bottom of the pile".DT
Curriculum / Quality Assurance
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