Comprehension :
1. Katherine Birbalsingh believes
that there is a problem with UK's education system. Can you identify
it within the first three minutes of the video? What is the problem?
For Katherine Birbalsingh, "the
system is broken because he keeps poor children, poor". So she
thinks children are not prepare to their study. Indeed, she says that
teacher are not responsible to the children. To her mind, pupils have
to be more responsible about their study,
because it's not the case : they find excuses for their bad results
and they accuse teacher, whereas they have to be responsible to
themselves. Katherine Birbalsingh thinks the problem in UK's
education is not the teachers but only children, who have to
understand that to improve at school, they have to be in competition.
2. Why does this problem exist
according to this teacher?
According to her, this problem exist
because almost all people think that if children have not good
results, it's not only their responsibilty but it also because of
teachers. So it would be a problem of prejudice.
3. What do the
government ministers think about this problem? Who is to blame for
the condition?
The first minister who speak says that
school is very unfair. He says that teacher can't learn all at
children, so it have to regard parents like an element of the
education of their child. To him, the government do all he can do,
and he support teachers. The second minister say that people believe
in teacher. And they say that the problem is a complaints culture,
because people would find problems in teachers which would be not
justifiable.
4. Which
suggestions does Katherine make to improve the system?
She suggests that people be more
responsible to themselves and to what they do. And she suggests to not looking after children if they don't have urge to be
responsible.
5. Which changes
would Katherine make in the education system if she were given a
choice?
She would give priority to the teachers
freedom. She thinks they would have to be more free in their choice
of education : free to make difficult exam for example.
In France
France is not a country which has got a
good and effective education system. We can speak about several
problems. When we are student or teacher the problems are obvious. We
can notice, first of all, that the system is not appropriate to the
aspirations of the pupils or the students. Indeed, to my mind, they
needs more breaks during a day. At school, children have towards 7 or
8 hours a day. It's too long and when they back home, they don't want
to study again. But this prolbem can be resolved easily, all the
government have to do is to create a better maneer to study, with
time to learn lessons at school, where children could be make their
homeworks too. Because a problem of fairness is obvious too. And the
two problems are link. Indeed, some pupils can be help by their
parents after school whereas other pupils can't be help. So we can
see a gap between pupils. The governement would put forward an other
alternative. What is needed, for me, is to propose a time during
school which would be a time of study. Thanks to that, pupils or
students could study at school and it would be more fairness.
