14 to 17 year-olds want a UK wide education system

 

FORMER Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appeared to question the devolution of education in extracts of a speech on independence.

In a speech at Edinburgh University, Mr Brown cited surveys which show more than 50 per cent of 14 to 17-year-olds in Scotland want a UK-wide education system with common UK exams and qualifications.

The speech challenges the separation of education for Scotland which has been guaranteed for more than 300 years since the Act of Union.

Mr Brown cited "astonishing new surveys of young people" carried out one year apart which found that around half of Scottish 14 to 17-year-olds "do not want to be part of an exclusively Scottish education system but want a UK system where the curriculum and exams are the same for everyone in the UK".

Perhaps 14 to 17 year-olds in Scotland need to be better informed. There is more than one exam board in England and Wales and a mixture of different type of schools. Education in Scotland is all ready being influenced by outside sources coming from the United Nations. Since the UN ambitions are global in extent the intention is that differences in education systems are one day going to be a thing of the past.

Surely Mr Brown should know this.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/gordon-brown-scots-want-uk-wide-school-system-1-3445973

The World Education Blog discusses the problem of measurement which they require to refine so that they can study the adoption of their agenda across the world.
http://efareport.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/how-can-we-measure-global-citizenship-skills-post-2015/