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Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 5:27 pm
by terminal7
Regarding teachers, BBC reports Williamson states he will "make sure all of them can access high quality training" - but does not specify how much the £400m works out at per teacher.
And we expected him last year to understand what an algorithm is.
T7
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 5:51 pm
by Lootman
terminal7 wrote:we expected him last year to understand what an algorithm is.
I didn't. I merely expected him to understand how to hire people who could hire people who could hire people who do understand that.
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 6:06 pm
by bungeejumper
While we're at it, should we expect the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to appreciate that a cricketer's racist twitterings from 2013 were not, as Dowden claims, written a decade ago? Or, as Boris's spokesman today insisted, "more than a decade ago".
Would I trust either of them to be able to add up the scores in a cricket match?
BJ
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 6:07 pm
by scrumpyjack
Compared to Diane Abbott any current minister is a mathematical Einstein!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 13556.html
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 6:25 pm
by bungeejumper
scrumpyjack wrote:Compared to Diane Abbott any current minister is a mathematical Einstein!
A hit, a palpable hit.
(Hamlet, which as any fule kno is a traditional Engish breakfast made from ham and eggs.)
BJ
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 7:02 pm
by terminal7
…….as any fule kno - false equivalence.
T7
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 7th, 2021, 8:25 pm
by scottnsilky
A similar question was asked in the 1960s of Barbara Castle, a non-driver who became the Transport Secretary, I think the answer was 'No'.
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 16th, 2021, 9:00 am
by Loup321
...which as any fule kno is
I've lost my copy of Down with Skool, but I just googled it, and you can get it on Kindle! Might be my first every paid for book on Kindle, unless I can get a hard copy on ebay. Not hardback - that was £855 on Amazon
Edited: Just bought a hardback from ebay for £3.28.
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 16th, 2021, 9:36 am
by stewamax
bungeejumper wrote:Hamlet, which as any fule kno is a traditional Engish breakfast made from ham and eggs.
Any fule kno that an 'amlet is an omlet filled with 'am.
And the last word on Education must go to the
Yes Minister episode
The State of Education
Re: Should we expect Education Secretary to be able to do simple division?
Posted: June 16th, 2021, 12:20 pm
by UncleEbenezer
stewamax wrote:bungeejumper wrote:Hamlet, which as any fule kno is a traditional Engish breakfast made from ham and eggs.
Any fule kno that an 'amlet is an omlet filled with 'am.
And the last word on Education must go to the
Yes Minister episode
The State of Education
Alternatively,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LscUyF8GDHM