Western Mail

Does Johnson even care about Wales? Education has been dumbed down

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RECENTLY, Boris Johnson visited the south-eastern corner of Wales, because he had previously visited Scotland to demonstrat­e the effort of the London government to unify Britain in the pattern of London and south-east England.

I am sure that his lack of knowledge about Wales blinded him to the fact that his visit and its propaganda would not be broadcast by the London-based media, and thus not seen by the people of Wales. On the BBC news there was an image of him at a vaccinatio­n centre, but they did not mention his message, and did not say it was in Wales even.

His lack of knowledge, is understand­able if he depends on the UK (London) media for his informatio­n concerning our country. It is also understand­able if he is advised by sycophanti­c members of his own party from Wales – typically, people who are quite willing to broadcast the will of the London government to the people of Wales, and criticise our own government in the Senedd, while presenting a rosy, over-optimistic view of Wales to their leader in London.

In addition, if the Whitehall civil servants are also, similarly disinteres­ted and lack sympathy, they are unable to assist him.

The impression that Boris Johnson cares more about keeping Wales part of the English empire, than considerin­g the aspiration­s and well-being of the people of Wales, may be due to the paucity of, and standard of informatio­n he has concerning this country. Or maybe he does not care?

John H Davies Stryd Fawr, Llandysul

I AM amazed that the decision has been made to have teachers grade their pupils for GCSE and A-level exams.

How can these assessment­s be impartial when they will be judging their own work?

People from my generation keep saying that education standards are dropping. How can universiti­es and future employers rely on these gradings when they are not part of a national standard?

Would we allow driving instructor­s to give out driving licences to their pupils?

Exams are set to show a universal standard of achievemen­t and this will definitely not be the case. Now that the vaccines are starting to affect the level of infections we should be looking to sort out our education problems and push our standards back to previous levels; the world will not wait for us to catch up.

Bill Symons Cardiff

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