EDUCATION: THE DAMAGE IS DONE

International colleges in their heyday routinely sold qualifications, from level 4 to degrees. I have worked alongside PHD students who couldn't write correct English. OK, that doesn't mean their degrees were falsely obtained but in some instances this was clearly the case. One individual who runs a college in Ilford comes to mind. Apart from his appalling English, he spoke poorly informed and absolute rubbish while claiming to have an MBA from Essex University. He simply wasn't MBA material. Likely as not, he paid someone else to produce his work.

Private colleges

Few private colleges in Britain are owned by people who were born and educated here, and therefore often there is little attention paid to much-trumpeted British standards. Poor English is commonplace. Although many crooks have disappeared from the educational scene, still many remain

ENGLISH TEACHING

Teaching English is hard and remorseless. Ah, rather extreme I hear you say! The difficulty sometimes is convincing students that learning grammar alone is not sufficient to adequately speak and write the language. It has to be imbibed, taken into the mind as sustenance.Students must absorb the teaching and language.

Many societies express the grief of bereavement through ritualised behaviour. They cry vociferously over the corpse, celebrate their lives, as with the Irish Wake, or respond with prayer. In our society, we give drugs to stop people feeling, Which is better? Which is healthier? Grief is part of human existence. Drugs are the instrument of elite control.

BEREAVEMENT

Beeavement is often an overwhelming experience. The at present popular practice of GPs to prescribe drugs for bereavement is unfortunately harmful in the long term. Anti-dpresants prevent messages being sent between neurones thereby muffling feelings and interfering with thought processes asnd perceptions. The pain remains to resurface whenever the patient comes off he midication or its  effects become weaker, when it then causes the patient to act odd to others. Moe drugs are then prescribd.

The end result is a damaged an supine individual.

International College

Recently I learnt that a private International College, accredited by ISI, hires two gentlemen to write the students' Edexcel Btec HND assignments. These are then marked by an internal assesser, and promptly declared fit for purpose by Edexcel's External assessor. One day, one of these students might be teaching you!!

Although many private colleges have been closed down or found it no longer viable to continue, I suggest the damage is done.

Recently, I worked alongside a younger lecturer who claimed to have an MBA from Greenwich University but was unable to speak or write appropriate English. I suspect he gained his qualification from one of the private colleges who ran or still run Greenwich University business courses. In such places, the assessment tends to be weak and all kinds of people now have higher degrees.

The problem lies in teaching, as the students' of these individuals  pick up fractured English and consequently we will soon have a whole generation of individuals with Masters and above who possess the literacy of ten year olds.