Far Eastern schools shame our education system, （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Gove

By Louise Eccles for the Daily Mail
Updated: 08:17 BST, 28 December 2010

Schools in the Far East are putting our education system to shame, Michael Gove （人命などを）奪う，主張するd last night.

The Education 長官 said 緊急の 改良s must be made if Britain’s schools were to compete with countries such as 中国 and Singapo re.

He 示唆するd that 有望な students 直面する 行方不明の out on the best universities because A-levels are failing to 準備する them for degree courses.

Long March: Education 長官 Michael Gove 示唆するd 器具／実施するing a Chinese-style cultural 革命 to 改善する on the UK's low position in world education 最高位のs

In an astonishing 爆発 he called on the UK to follow in the footsteps of Chairman Mao and 乗る，着手する on ‘a Long March to 改革（する） our education system’.

He said: ‘I am happy to 自白する I’d like us to 器具／実施する a cultural 革命 just like the one they’ve had in 中国.

‘Schools in the Far East are turning out students who are working at an altogether higher level than our own.’

Mr Gove said the 最新の international education league （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs showed Britain had slipped even その上の behind foreign 相当するものs because of ‘労働’s neglect’.

He went on: ‘At the same time, the gap between rich and poor grows wider, while places like Shanghai and Singapore put us to shame.’

'Giving new teeth' to exams: Universities will play a bigger part in designing A-levels so they do not have to 申し込む／申し出 their own 実験（する）s on 最高の，を越す

Earlier this month it 現れるd the UK had 急落するd to 23rd in the world education 最高位のs. It is now behind 比較して poor nations such as Estonia, Poland and the Slovak 共和国 in reading, maths and science.

Mr Gove also said A-levels had been dumbed 負かす／撃墜する and ‘平価を切り下げるd’.

He 宣言するd: ‘Colleges can no longer? rely on the 存在するing A-level to identify the best 候補者s, so they have to 始める，決める their own 実験（する）s. And academics 報告（する）／憶測 that even the brightest of our students don’t have the level of knowledge that undergraduates from abroad can 誇る.

‘So when they arrive at college they need remedial work, 特に on 支配するs like maths, to compete.’

He said he hoped that by ‘giving new teeth’ to the exams regulator Ofqual, exam boards would no longer be able to pass high 百分率s of students 簡単に because they were tempted to ‘scoop up more students, 特に from schools worried about league （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する 最高位のs and anxious to get the easiest As going’.

Mr Gove 追加するd: ‘We’re asking universities to play a bigger part in designing A-levels so they don’t have to of fer their own 実験（する）s on 最高の，を越す.

‘And we’re also 改革（する）ing league （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs so they 焦点（を合わせる） on the exams universities and 雇用者s value, such as science, history and modern languages. Soft 支配するs will no longer have the same value.’