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You need a C or above in Maths (or equivalent) to do Beauty Therapy NVQ's.
Yes. An above average grade in Maths to paint nails. Makes me sick. I'm lucky I got the damn grad eother wise I'd be even more sickened by the fact.
Alot of my mates have wanted to go into teaching and they're struggling just as much, The grade expectations are just so you can prove you can learnwhat they need to know I guess.
I don't know where you get that impression from, I'm not looking down my nose at anyone. I don't make the rule.
Not sure where you're going with that particular gem of information really, as the same could apply to any poor teacher with tricky kids.
No, its hearsay. What's fact is the government statistic that is at the bottom of the web page I quoted.
*shrug*
why isn't it? just 'cause a C is the assumed 'pass mark' doesn't mean that 1 grade below it is 'not good'.
you think i sat my maths GCSE 4 times and wanted to settle for an average mark? no. i don't find maths easy but i tried my hardest. just because someone gets a D doesn't mean that they didn't try hard. why shouldn't i want to get an A*? i'm sure everyone would love to get A*'s in all of their exams wouldn't they but it's not like that. afterall, we're not all perfect like some of us think we are. i find it quite worrying that you seem to neglect the fact that we're not all brain boxes at all subjects. just because you get below a C doesn't mean you didn't try hard!
A D isn't bad. I don't give a toss about a D., If it means I have average maths ability but I kick ass in every other subject were I got a lot more then I don't care. I have university degree, did my maths hinder me? did I show that by getting a D in maths I couldnt hack it? No, I whopped ass and did better then the people who got more then D in Maths but only got 3rd at uni.
It isn't hearsy , it is fact. Juts because your crappy government website wants to quote figures relating A*-C grades, doesnt mean that D is not average. I will take the word of the guy that writes and marks the exams over a couple of lines you pulled from somewhere that don't mean anything.
You are a snob and you have looke ddown on me and anyone that doesnt meet your standard. I hope when you fall you hit your ass hard because you deserve it.
To get into teaching here you need to have at least credit level maths (a 1 or 2) or Higher maths. I didn't have the correct maths grades so did an open learning course.
I also did a lot of voluntary work in schools before applying cos experience is really important.
Applied through GTTR.
I'm in the middle of my 6 week p4-7 placement. Have a pretty challenging p6/7 but am really enjoying it!
Oh I'm very pleased for you. No really. What relevance does that have to anything?
Err, no, it's hearsay. You're repeating to me what your maths teacher told you.
It's the DfES website. I'll take the word of that over whatever guy taught you and got you a D.
I've made no value judgements about you whatsoever, yet you choose to insult me because you assume based on what I have said that I'm a snob.
To be honest it sounds as if you are smarting from not getting what you wanted, and you realise that you're on a losing stance in a debate so you're resorting to throwing the personal insults out.
As Kathryn said, a D at GCSE is not a great mark. Whether it's a pass or fail or the mark of a good school even isn't really the point, the point is that there's better grades that people can get, and that to be a teacher you need one of those better grades. Personally I see nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
Obviously the teacher crises isn't as bad as they make out if they can reject candidates over one exam that will no doubt be replaced in a few years.
I think you will find it was others that insulted me before that last post but once again, the fact that you don't bother reading the posts does not surprise me.
What evidence? You haven't provided any concrete evidence. You have just given us "he says, she says" stuff. Nothing that we can look at and evaluate ourselves.
The reason, as I have already stated, for there being a teacher crisis is *not* because of them setting the entry requirements too high. It is because the government do not give institutions enough money to train more. I am currently doing my teacher training. At my institution there were over 700 applicants (with at least a C in GCSE Maths ...) that applied for 70 places. These people *had* the entry requirements. Your argument is flawed.
*yawn*
This whole argument is getting a tad tedious.
More as I grow older
Feel I owe a debt
For the things I don't get
I only miss out
(Well I was there before)
I sit in a corner
Sit on the floor
Chorus:
Misery
Complaints
Self Pity
Injustice
Chips on my shoulder
There's no time for fun time
It's sit and complain time
I'll talk about famine
While cooking the dinner
Don't you feel guilty
Don't you feel pity (No)
While my head gets fatter
And the starving get thinner
Chorus
I should have told her
I've chips on my shoulder
I'm making a stand
While I sit on my arse
Fish and chip supper
While those in the gutter
Can't have a good time
Fun's just a farse
Misery
Complaints
Self Pity
Injustice
Chips on my shoulder
Chips on my shoulder
Oh and I have yet to see anyone provide evidence that on the grade scale that D is not classed as Average in ability. Quoting the numbers of how many people gained A*-C grades is pointless and meaningless.
Oh and if the teacher training is soooo overprecisbed by the tune of 700 people trying for 70 places then why are they advertising for more teachers?? Surely they wouldn't need to if they were so over prescribed?
Actually you have. If you look at the website I linked to, you can see that over 50% of people taking GCSEs last year achieved grades A*-C. That means that the larger group of people scored higher than a D. So it can't really be average.
And, as I have said before, it's not really the point whether or not a D is average, because it's still not that great.
*thunk*
I have a B at GCSE so the debate doesnt really interest me.
Does anyone else have any advice on gaining experience for me?
You don't like Soft Cell? I think they were great, Marc Almond is well underrated if you ask me.
*shrugs*
Look - the point is that teachers are expected to be of above average ability and have a well rounded education.