I can make allowances
for foreign students, as English is not their first language.

But some British students write completely nonsensical language in their exam scripts. An eight year old should be able to construct better sentences.

I also had one guy give an answer which was wrong by 26 orders of magnitude! He had the charge on the electron as 10⁷ Coulombs. To put that into context, it's the same as saying the diameter of an atom was one light year. It's that wrong!

Is it that they're not being taught language and number skills properly in the primary schools? (Not that I blame the teachers - they just teach what they're told to).

Surely a prerequisite of being able to function in the real world is to be able to write your own language coherently, and do basic arithmetic?

/rant
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 14:57, Reply)