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70% pass marks in
Architecture exams
Dan, who's having trouble getting to his
cereal, wrote in with this one
Only a short rant.......... |
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...continuing my theme on how examinations need a re-think and how
dangerous it is to educate people to only need to get a certain
percentage correct of what it is they're doing..........
The architect who drew up the plans for my house renovation must have
come top of his class (I believe getting 70% gets you a first class
degree).
Unfortunately only getting 70% of the measurements correct on the plans
for my house just isn't good enough! The plans were given to the kitchen
design company who duly used them to decide what size the kitchen
cabinets should be, (they use a computer so luckily their margin for
error wasn't an additional factor). The fitters arrived this morning and
installed the kitchen cabinets which of course now extend across the
kitchen doorway preventing access to said room and everything in
it.......... marvellous, just marvellous. I hope the fitters managed to
get out of the room.
Please Mr. Blair (and Ruth Kelly or whoever it is who looks after
education) change exams and make them more realistic and relevant to the
real world.
Dan, this is interesting on two
counts: Firstly, as you rightly say, the architect is a schmuck. Done.
Case closed.
Secondly, and what is, however, more
deeply set as a problem that fills me with despair, is that there are
people (in this case they masquerade as kitchen fitters) who will pick
up instructions and follow them to the letter no matter how ridiculous
their efforts appear as they unfold. Interesting point - and maybe the
Letter from
Singapore can shed some light here - what level of intelligence can
generally and reasonably be accepted as "fit to offer services to the
public without requiring adult supervision"?
What I'm trying to say is:
- are you at fault for assuming
that, should the "kitchen fitter" find his plans lead him to filling
in the doorway with a tea-towel drawer, he will stop, report
that there is a problem and wait for amended plans, or
- your assumption is fair, and this
particular "kitchen fitter" should be removed from society and given
simpler tasks like turning rocks into stones?
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