quarta-feira, agosto 22, 2007

Competências dos alunos britânicos do secundário

"Podem perceber muito de novas tecnologias - e nisso dão cartas aos empregadores - mas entram no mercado de trabalho com cada vez mais deficiências no que se refere a leitura, escrita e contas". Assim se poderia resumir os resultados de um inquérito recente promovido pela Confederação Britância da Indústria junto dos alunos que terminam o ensino secundário. Globalmente, orém, os patrões parecem estar satisfeitos. Algumas notas sobre o inquérito, através desta notícia do ZDnet:

"The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pertemps Employment Trends Survey found 92 percent of employers are happy with the IT skills of students taking General Certificate of Secondary Education qualification exams, which typically are administered to students aged 14 to 16.

The CBI chalks this up to the familiarity of "generation text" with Web and mobile-based technologies and a 47 percent increase in the number of pupils taking the information and communications technology GCSE exam over the last decade. About 110,000 students took the exam last year.

"Their fluency with iPods, mobiles and MySpace has translated well into the workplace, and often gives them an edge over their bosses. The greater focus on IT in schools and investment in computers is also helping," Richard Lambert, CBI's director general, said in the report.

But the report found that those leaving secondary-school programs increasingly lack basic abilities in English and math. More than half (52 percent) of the employers questioned in the survey said they are dissatisfied with the basic literacy of those who have completed secondary school, and half said the same about numerical skills.

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Ver, sobre o mesmo assunto, a notícia do Daily Mail: iPod generation struggling to read and write

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