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If we fail future generations of students, Mr. Gove changes must be refined before it is established

is difficult to conceive in an era of stagnant growth and rising unemployment in the next 20 years, the world economy would double in size. A billion skilled jobs and thousands of new industries will create a type and nature we can not begin to imagine. Perhaps half of all students who start school in September to work on careers and industries that have not been invented yet. Education, preparing young people for an uncertain present and an uncertain future, has rarely faced a major challenge.

However, as Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, said in the conference last year MacTaggart, education is in danger of becoming an anachronism for many young people as it offers very little relevant preparation for life in the 21st century. The result is the elimination, waste of talent and a massive drain on public coffers. Logically, all this absorbs Michael Gove, the secretary of education. Cromwell has been shown zeal in reshaping the image to learn at a pace that does not easily lend itself to a more consultative approach and a precautionary approach. Its mission also seems that some critics, to be headed by Minister for the taste of his own traditional education rather than understanding that the unpredictability of the future will require a real diversity of approaches.

last week announced a drastic reduction store the complex world of professional qualifications. In 2014, only 125 of 3175 titles, such as construction and the built environment and deserve inclusion in the school rankings as the equivalent of a GCSE. Other qualifications that the title of a new and prestigious engineering will be reduced by the equivalent of five GCSEs at once.

Sacrifice is not a surprise. Last year, Professor Alison Wolf Gove has been appointed to review all training. Their findings again exposed to the educational apartheid that struck Britain. Those who are "smart" are taught to think. Those considered less academic is considered "good hands". This division was included in the Education Act 1944, but was intended to provide a labor of manual workers and 80% staff 20% Professional and Administrative

heavy industry has left behind, while the number of unskilled jobs is expected to decline by 3 million today to 600,000 in 2020. On leaving school with the skills and capabilities and qualifications they have, has never had more. Paradoxically, the huge increase in vocational training has helped mask the extent of the failure of our education system to adapt to modern times.

In 2004, 22,500 vocational qualifications taken in schools: in 2009 this figure had risen to a staggering 540,000. This inflammation is produced in a time when the pressure to "teach to the test" and higher rankings has become essential if the school would be considered a success. The net result is that many young people are educated wrong, amounting to little. Mr. Wolf concluded in its opinion that up to 400 000 16 - to 19-year cycles of little value, resulting in a "dead end"

elimination last week is part of the effort expected to welcome Mr. Gove to restore credibility. The practical education, he says, "was stripped of its special character." The problem is that, although his words reflect a commitment to the value of practice and experience as an equally valid education, the extent of their actions last week, intentionally or not, a different message. It is said that the amount of professional and dedicated to her students that much of what they do is of little value .

Darwen Aldridge Community Academy , for example, use the "learning by doing and entrepreneurship" in all its endeavors. In 2009, in its previous incarnation as a failing school, only 22% of pupils achieved five GCSEs. The tendency was to graduate unemployment. Last year, 56% of pupils achieved five GCSE A *-C including Maths and English. For the first time, five students have attended college, 20 will be more this year, the first in their families
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