Education crisis

Having virtually eliminated the concept of the 3Rs at primary school, which has led to many high schools running literacy and numeracy crammers for the first years, and having watched the gradual dumbing down of the Highers it should come as no surprise that universities are being asked to embrace “contextualised admissions” (Orwell missed out on that one).

I presume the logical outcome will be that employers in the future will be encouraged to embrace the new Fourth Class Honours degree as a worthy attainment.

There have been numerous instances where schools in so-called deprived areas have achieved brilliant results due to the motivation and leadership skills of the headmaster/ headmistress and staff and it may mean that pay scales reflect – there might be a chance that Scottish education could once again hold its head up on the world stage.

A TROMBALA Park Terrace, Stirling