Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Schools urged to teach basic skills

Schools urged to teach basic skills / EducationGuardian.co.uk

Schools are in danger of creating "an army of the unemployable" as teenagers leave school with no qualifications, the leader of a headteachers' union warned yesterday.

Mick Brookes, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said there needed to be a radical change to the content of lessons taught to primary school children in order to stem this tide of disaffected youth.

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