2013/02/08/michael-gove-marked-border-line-fail/ London MEP European Parliament Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ 2013/02/08/michael-gove-marked-border-line-fail/#comment-12068 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:49:33 +0000 ?p=20175#comment-12068 I am sad that the issue was addressed overwhelmingly on a political and/or industrial relations basis.
I think there was a real need to discuss whether England is not far too over-specialised at schools. I say this as a New Zealand who came to England in the middle of secondary schooling. Why is it so difficult to combine English, Mathematics and languages? As an example of university subjects that would benefit from such a combination at school level… Philosophy, Linguistics, Geography, Psychology and most social/economic sciences.
If more economists did physics at school, it is my belief that neo-liberalism would be laughed out of court.
Also I think that over-specialisation between humanities and sciences puts girls off maths and/or sciences if they must drop humanities subjects too soon. (humans vs geeks!!!)

]]>