How does the political involvement in education effect the education systems?

Answer 1

Mostly, it screws up the educational process. Politicians reflect the popular culture, not what is necessarily the best way to do things, and because of this I have a niece who learned to read from a computer program, and did quite well for a second grader. Unfortunately, she was int fifth grade at the time. When we took her under wing and taught her phonics, sounding out words, reading challenging books, and looking up meanings, she improved dramatically. We used old reading texts and repetition and time. Computer based reading was in vogue, politicians were funding it, but I don't think it was getting the job done, and that happens too often. And shouldn't that be "affect" the education system, or what effect does political involvement have on the education systems?

Answer 2

Political involvement can effect education in various ways, it can effect the curriculum, as we saw with New Labour they started introducing a literacy hour within primary schools, in english lessons we see more of a focus on creative writing rather than grammar, hence not a lot of people know how to correctly use english grammar because it never got taught at school. Political involvement has also seen creation of these new schools which focus more on business rather than traditional subjects, and they have been somewhat of a shambles. Political involvement can also effect what children learn about their national heritage, teachers will have to teach some aspects in a particular slant to make England look better eg. relations with Ireland. So all in all, political involvement can have an impact on the way children are taught, and sometimes it is detrimental.

Answer 3

Politicians can radically change the education system, and have done so on several occasions in the UK. One of the biggest changes was to introduce the comprehensive system. Prior to that, there was the tripartite system, which had three streams. At age 11, you went to the type of school best suited to your academic needs. If you passed your 11+ exam, you went to Grammar School, if not then you went to either Secondary Modern School, or if you were more mechanically minded, you went to Technical School.

Some schools operated all three streams in the one campus, and you could move across into a different stream if your needs changed over time.

The Labour party decided that this was an unfair system, and introduced its "one size fits all" system of comprehensive schools, which were much larger establishments with everyone being taught roughly the same syllabus. Nearly all education experts will now admit that this system levels out to accomodate the slower learners, and that bright children suffer dramatically from not being academically stretched.

Answer 4

It means that the voters / tax payers have input.

If you have a private school, it is under the direction of the trustees of the school, and they are not part of the government. The only political involvement is the requirement that the students pass tests (like exams from the state board of regents / the board of education) or else the school loses its accreditation which is given by the government...

These stipulations are the same at the college / university level ... and any training that requires a government certificate in order to practise, like nursing,.....

I do not believe it involves business school (for secretaries) or cuisine schools ... just those dealing with basic education....

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Answer 5

Political involvement in any primitive of society degrades that primitive to the level of a point scoring exercise. In education, Government must be *seen* to improve the lot of the student, commerce and industry by maintaining the qualitative value of an education *and* increasing the examination success rate; but the operative word here is 'seen'.

Irrespective of whether education *could* improve under central political guidance, The Powers That Be have (and exercise) the impetus to manipulate an undesirable truth into something more palatable: if the facts don't fit the figures, change the figures and redefine the facts. And if that doesn't yield the intended result? Reduce the qualitative value of the primitive to the lowest common denominator: i.e., and in this case, make it easier for the desired number of students to achieve a degree of education - regardless of whether that degree of education is of real-world value.

In short: As far as education goes, political figure-fiddling, goal post shifting and spin is degrading its value for the student, commerce, industry and Britain as a whole. Nice one, Tony.

Answer 6

All ministers after taking the ministry wants to change it just like that--the pattern has changed every year.The books are rewritten
There is nobody to check it at statelevel or at the centre.
For somany non important things they call it in media to get the feed back--but in these cases the whim and fancy of the politiciansare always there,
The election system in colleges and univercities make a lot of trouble to the student community-all political parties are involved in it.
Only pure acadamical persons should be involved in all activities oof education-then only it can improve.

Answer 7

Where the ruling political party has control of the education system, as in Britain; they are clearly able to 'brainwash' young people to follow certain belief patterns. New Labour are probably the worst offender of any government that I have lived under since 1945. They are systematically,along with the BBC, demonising any political opinion even vaguely to the right of centre and classifying such opinions as neofascist or nazi. Teachers at state schools are being 'railroaded' into dishing-up a left wing stew of subservient liberal pacifism and non competitve social engagement. Boys are slowly being emasculated and feminised and losing all of that restless energy and inventiveness of past times. If this trend continues for another decade then I seriously fear for the future of this nation. We could end up relegated to 2nd world status, with a Boy-Scout army and navy (like the rest of Europe), having to import engineering and scientific talent (girls aren't going to do it), and becoming a clearing-house for every economic migrant in the World, (that means criminals and spongers as well).
The only answer to this problem is to take education out of State control and privatise it, so that parents who care about their children's education can select a school with the kind of ethos they want, that will teach children to read and write (you know, real sentences and paragraphs with punctuation), and do mathematics, to use their brains, work things out for themselves and channel their energies,and not to have political claptrap fed to them.

If I sound a bit angry, it's because I am angry.
I am not anti-female, I'm just realistic.

Answer 8

of course the political involvement influence the educational system since the political dispersion of the day try to infuse their ideology into the educational system.the Communism and fascist regimes are the examples.

Answer 9

Politicians are involved in education by the simple fact that they are the ones who appropriate the tax money which pays for education, and therefore are able to influence who is hired to teach, what materials are used to teach, and what subjects are taught and how they are taught. At least that's how it works in the USA. This might be a partial explanation of why we elect who we elect. Scary, eh?

Answer 10

The Media, with it's complete 19thC naivety has wrecked the possibility of the English and Welsh education system moving into the 21stC. The politicians are just puppets of the press.